Brey: Last Name Origin and Family Crest

Heraldry is personal: arms associated with the Bray surname were borne by specific families, and sharing the name does not mean sharing the blazon.

What Brey means

The last name Brey is one of the recorded forms of Bray, an English family name. Surname dictionaries give the meaning as “Hill, or brave”.

Before spelling was fixed, Bray was also written Brey. Related forms: Braye and Brai. 254 people born in France between 1891 and 2000 carried the Brey name at birth. Births ran at 7 in 1891–1900 and 24 in 1991–2000. Spain's INE counts 465 residents with Brey as first surname and 372 with it as second.

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