Last name origins & meanings:
- French: descriptive nickname, le Brun ‘the brown one’,
from Old French brun, referring to the color of the hair,
complexion, or clothing (see Brown). This name is also Catalan
and Swiss (in the French as well as the German speaking parts).
- North German and Scandinavian: nickname Germanic brūna
‘brown’, referring to the color of the hair, complexion, or clothing
or from a Germanic personal name, Bruno, with the same
meaning. See also Braun.
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