Submitted NameRevisions Save Type Surname Usage German Edit Status Status [show contributorshide contributors] Added 10/29/2013 by anonymous Edited 8/5/2014 by Fanny Meaning & History Topographic name for someone who lived by a marsh or a stream that frequently flooded, from Middle High German bruoch "water meadow" or "marsh" (cognate to old English broc "brook", "stream" cf. Brook).
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