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The brehm Surname

brehm Name Meaning and History

  1. South German: nickname for a restless, cantankerous man, from Middle High German brem(e) ‘horsefly’, a derivative of bremen ‘to buzz or grumble’ .
  2. German: topographic or habitational name from a field named with Brem ‘swampy bank’, simply as Brehm, Brem, or Bräm, or in compounds such as Bremgarten, Bremkamp. In Switzerland the regular spelling of this name is Bräm.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of brehm Families in the US in 1920
Number of brehm families
 70-138
 24-69
 1-23
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