Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Brughadha
‘descendant of Brughaidh’, a byname meaning ‘strong farmer’,
‘prosperous farmer’.Manx: Anglicized form of the Gaelic
occupational term breitheamh ‘judge’, ‘deemster’ (see
Brain).Probably an Americanized spelling of German
and Swiss Breu, a variant of Breuer.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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