Family name origins & meanings
- German : from a Germanic personal name, a compound of Brun(o) + her ‘army’.
- German : from a term denoting a follower of the Brunones, a dynasty of medieval (Lower) Saxony.
- German : habitational name for someone from Brauna near Kamenz, Saxony, or from Braunau in Austria.
- Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from German Brauner ‘the brown one’.
- Swedish and Danish : of German origin.