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brunswick Name Meaning and History

  1. English: habitational name from the city in Saxony now known in German as Braunschweig (see 2).
  2. German: habitational name from the original Middle Low German name (a compound of Bruns + wik ‘Bruno’s settlement’) of Braunschweig (Brunswick); the standard German form was adopted in 1573.

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Distribution of brunswick Families in the US in 1920
Number of brunswick families
 23-43
 8-22
 1-7
 0
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