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bromley Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from any of the many places called Bromley, in Essex, Hertfordshire, Kent (now in Greater London), Greater London, Greater Manchester, Staffordshire, and elsewhere. Most are named with Old English brom ‘broom’ + leah ‘woodland clearing’, but Bromley (near Bow) in Greater London is from Old English bræmbel ‘bramble’ + leah.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of bromley Families in the US in 1920
Number of bromley families
 61-119
 21-60		 1-20
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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