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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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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Brehm Family sweethome69 4
Prehm Bible LindaAcord43 1
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Brehm in Bavaria rlorrah 1
Brehm/Walters Family Line TWaltersBrimhall 1
Discher/Brehm Family Gencat56 4
Phillip B. Brehm Tracy Cummings 7
Brehm - Germans from Russia Kathy Brehm LaPella 6
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