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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : variant of Braig, a habitational name from any of several places so named in Württemberg.
  • German : possibly a nickname from an old agent derivative of Swabian bräugen ‘to cry’, ‘to roar’.

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