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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : variant of Bream 2.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : acronymic surname from Hebrew ben rabi ‘son of …’, and the first letter of each part of a Yiddish double male personal name. See also Brill.

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