Family name origins & meanings
- Polish and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ethnic name for a Prussian, either a member of an ancient Baltic people related to the Lithuanians and Latvians or a member of the German people who displaced them in the 13th century. Compare Prusak, Preuss.
- Slovenian (south-central Slovenia) : altered reduced form of the personal name Ambrož, Latin Ambrosius. Compare Brus 2.