German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): topographic name for someone who
lived beside a spring or well, Middle High German brun(ne)
‘spring’, or habitational name for someone from a place named with
this word.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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