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The brahm Surname

brahm Name Meaning and History

  1. German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from a reduced form of Abraham.
  2. 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).
  3. 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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The brahm name in History

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Distribution of brahm Families in the US in 1920
Number of brahm families
 14-26
 5-13		 1-4
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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