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braunschweig Name Meaning and History

German and Jewish (western Ashkenazic): habitational name from the city of Braunschweig in Lower Saxony, known in English as Brunswick. The place name is from the genitive case of the Germanic personal name Bruno (borne by the Duke of Saxony who founded the city in 861) + Old Saxon wik ‘dwelling place’, ‘settlement’.

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Distribution of braunschweig Families in the US in 1920
Number of braunschweig families
 12-21
 5-11		 1-4
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braunschweig André Amiouni 1
Albertine Braunschweig Bkwagner23 6
Christina Braunschweig yc_prough 4
Christina Braunschweig b. 1737 in PA Colleen Yates 5
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Braunschweig, Margaret DaiseeD2 1
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