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brau Name Meaning and History

  1. South German (Bräu): from a primitive form of the agent noun for a brewer, Middle High German briuwe.
  2. North German: from Middle Low German bruw(e) denoting ‘a set quantity brewed at once’.
  3. Catalan and southern French: nickname from brau ‘wild’, from Latin barbarus ‘barbarian’, ‘ruffian’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of brau Families in the US in 1920
Number of brau families
 3-3
 2-2		 1
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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