The brugman Surname

brugman Name Meaning and History

Dutch: topographic name for someone who lived near a bridge or a metonymic occupational name for a bridge keeper, from Dutch brugge ‘bridge’ (see Bridge); in some cases, it is a habitational name for someone from the Flemish city of Bruges (or Brugge), meaning ‘bridges’.
Altered spelling of Swiss Bruggmann ‘bridge keeper’.

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

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brugman Family Facts

Distribution of brugman Families in the US in 1920

Number of brugman families

9-16

4-8

1-3

Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 10 - Messages: 30

Thread	Author	Replies
Brugman, Carl from Nebraska	SheilaBerube1618	0
brugman	natasha	0
history	JBrugman4468	12
Brugman Family Germany to Puerto Rico	Carrolisa Brugman	3
Frances, Hildegard, Catherine BRUGMAN(N)	Debbie	4
Arthur & Elsie Brugman of Omaha, Nebraska	CJP92	1
Brugman, Bruggeman, Bruggemanne	catrien	0
BRUGMAN / BRUGMANN	dehadfield	0
Neeltje Frederika Brugman	Olga	0
Berthe Brüggemann/Brugman	Jeff Banke	0

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