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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch and North German : topographic name for someone who lived by a pasture, from Middle Low German unter ‘under’ + brinc ‘edge’, ‘slope’, ‘grazing land’, in particular a raised meadow in low-lying land.

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