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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : from brochu ‘to provide with a lance or spear’ or an equivalent of broché ‘brocade’, ‘brocading’.
  • A Brochu from the Poitou region of France is documented in Ste-Famille, Quebec, in 1669.

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