Origin of Brumble


Recorded in many spellings including Bramble, Brambell, Brambill, Bremmell, Bremell, Brimmell, Brimble, Brombell, and Brumble, this is an English surname. It originates from the Olde English pre 7th century word "bremel", meaning bramble, and as such there are two possible origins. The first is topographical for a person who lived in an area overrun with bramble, or where bramble had been deliberately grown to provide hedging to contain cattle, however the most likely origin is that it was a nickname.

This would have been given to a person with a prickly temperment or perhaps the reverse! In the Chaucerian period of history around the14th century and onwards, such nicknames were all the rage. Some were highly personal and even obscene, others like this one, a more gentle comment on a person's social attitude. Perhaps not surprisingly, few of the more "robust" examples have survived. Early examples of the surname recording taken from surviving church registers of the diocese of Greater London include: Thomas Bremell, a christening witness at St Dunstans in the East, Stepney, on December 12th 1574, William Bramble and his wife Gartrud (?), who were witnesses at St Dunstans in the East, Stepney, on August 17th 1621, Geoffrey Brimble, christened at the church of St Andrews Undershaft, city of London, on July 11th 1651, during the "reign" of Oliver Cromwell, and William Brimmell, christened at St Katherines by the Tower (of London) on September 12th 1741. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.

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  1. Bramble
  2. Brumbles
  3. Brumbley
  4. Brimble
  5. Brumbie
  6. Brambley
  7. Brumbeloe
  8. Brumby
  9. Brambila
  10. Bramblett
  11. Brember
  12. Brembt
  13. Bremby
  14. Bromby
  15. Brumbach
  16. Brumback
  17. Brumbalow
  18. Brumbelow
  19. Brumberg
  20. Brumfiel
  21. Brembo
  22. Brombal
  23. Brombill
  24. Brombin
  25. Brembor
  26. Brambell
  27. Brambill
  28. Baramba
  29. Barambio
  30. Barambo
  31. Barnabe
  32. Bernabe
  33. Brambach
  34. Brambert
  35. Brambilla
  36. Brembati
  37. Brempt
  38. Brombach
  39. Bromberek
  40. Bromberg
  41. Brumbaugh
  42. Brumfield
  43. Brumpton
  44. Berimbau
  45. Brambullo
  46. Brumvert
  47. Bramburg
  48. Brambati
  49. Brembilla
  50. Barmby