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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : nickname from an old Bavarian word meaning ‘toad’ and, in a figurative sense, ‘showy’.
  • German : topographic name of Slavic origin, from brjaza ‘birch’, Sorbian breza.

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