German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from a reduced form of
Abraham.
North German: topographic name from Middle
Low German bram ‘broom’, ‘gorse’, or a habitational name
from a place named with Low German bram ‘swampy thicket’,
for example Am Brahm, near Oldenburg (denoting a location by a
canal).
German: topographic name for someone who lived by a
bramble thicket, from Middle High German brame ‘blackberry’,
‘bramble’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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