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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : habitational name, with the preposition and definite article du, for someone from any of various minor places named in Old French with brai ‘mud’, ‘mire’ (Late Latin bracium, a word of Gaulish origin).
  • French : Perhaps also an altered form of Dubreuil.

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