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BrännströmSwedish Combination of Swedish bränna "to burn" and ström "stream".
BråthenNorwegian Derived from Old Norse broti "land cleared for cultivation by burning". This was a common farm name in southeastern Norway.
BrendenNorwegian Derived from Old Norse brenna "land cleared for cultivation by burning" (also known as svedjebruk "slash-and-burn agriculture").
BrennaNorwegian Variant of Brenden, a Norwegian surname derived from brenna "land cleared for cultivation by burning" (also known as svedjebruk "slash-and-burn agriculture").
BrennerGerman, German (Austrian), Jewish Derived from Middle High German brennen "to burn". Both as a German and a Jewish name, this was an occupational name for a distiller of spirits. As a German surname, however, it also occasionally referred to a charcoal or lime burner or to someone who cleared forests by burning.
BrindleyEnglish Habitational name from a place in England so named. From Old English berned "burnt" and leah "woodland clearing".
GörlitzGerman The name of a small town in Saxony. Derived from old Sorbian word "Zgorelc" meaning "settlement on a burned-out forest."
HuhtamäkiFinnish Derived from huhta (“woodland cleared for slash-and-burn cultivation”) + mäki (“hill”).
OsaragiJapanese (Rare) From Japanese 大仏 (osaragi), from Old Japanese オホソレキ (ohosoreki), from オホ (oho) meaning "great; large", ソレ (sore) meaning "slash-and-burn cultivation" , and キ (ki) meaning "place", referring to a place in the mountains that had been slash-and-burn cultivated.
PaleyJewish, Yiddish, Belarusian, Ukrainian Occupational name for a distiller, derived from an East Slavic word (Russian палить (palitʹ), Ukrainian палити (palyty)) meaning "to burn". A famous bearer was Princess Olga Valerianovna Paley (1865-1929), the morganatic second wife of Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia.
SteinbrennerGerman occupational name for a lime burner from Middle High German stein "stone" (in this case limestone) and an agent derivative of brennen "to burn".
SvedbergSwedish Combination of Swedish svedja "to burn off, to swidden" (referring to slash-and-burn agriculture (in Swedish: svedjebruk)) and berg "mountain". This name can be both locational (surname derived from a place named with Sved-... [more]
SvedinSwedish Combination of Swedish svedja "to burn off, to swidden" (referring to slash-and-burn agriculture (in Swedish: svedjebruk)) and the common surname suffix -in.
UsaiItalian Possibly from the name of the former village Usani, or alternately, from Sardinian uscare "to burn, to scorch".
WilburnEnglish A habitation name of uncertain origin found in the East Midlands. Speculation includes the possibility of the meaning "well" and "burn, borne" therefore meaning one who lived near a well or spring by a waterway crossing.
YanarTurkish Means "burns, lights, combusts" in Turkish.