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The brewer Surname

brewer Name Meaning and History

  1. English: occupational name for a brewer of beer or ale, from an agent derivative of Old English breowan ‘to brew’. Compare Brewster.
  2. English (of Norman origin): anglicized form of French Bruyère (see Bruyere), habitational name from a place so called in Calvados, France.
  3. Translation of Dutch Brouwer, German Brauer or Breuer, etc., all occupational names meaning ‘brewer’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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brewer Family Facts

Distribution of brewer Families in the US in 1920
Number of brewer families
 288-573
 97-287		 1-96
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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