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Burmeister

Updated: June 9, 2019
Updated: June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German : status name for the mayor or chief magistrate of a town, from Middle Low German būr ‘inhabitant, dweller’, ‘neighbor’, ‘peasant’, ‘citizen’ + mēster ‘master’.

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