Bruyere Family History
Bruyere Name Meaning
French (Bruyère): from Old French bruiere ‘heather’ hence a topographic name for someone who lived in a place where heather grew or a habitational name from one of the places in France (for example in Calvados) named with this word. Compare Labruyere . Altered form (Bruyère) of French Bruguier: habitational name from (Le) Bruguier the name of several places in the southeastern part of France a cognate of 1 above.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022