Last name: BRASS
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BRASS : This last name is indexed 33,428 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
BRASS : 1: Scottish: habitational name from Birse in Aberdeenshire metathesized to Brass.2: English (Northumberland): variant of Brace.3: North German: nickname from Middle Low German brās ‘noise pomp’ a related form of brāsch (see Braasch).4: German: topographic name from Brass ‘broom gorse’ a common name element in the Lower Rhine and Ruhr.
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