The brahm Surname
brahm Name Meaning and History
- 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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