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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German (Brüggemann) : topographic name for someone who lived near a bridge or a metonymic occupational name for a bridge keeper or street paver, Middle Low German brüggeman (see Bruckman, Brueckner).

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