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Frequency: (110)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
German: variant of Brand. This name was brought to Bergen, Norway, from Bielefeld in Westphalia around the beginning of the 19th century, and from there to the U.S.
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