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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (northwest) : probably a habitational name from Brucks (also Brux) which derived from Middle Low German brōk ‘low-lying marsh’. A north German family by this name reportedly (1820) derive their name from Flemish immigrants from a place called Broex.

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