Bruin, Bruijn, Bruyn and Bruins are Dutch surnames. They can be equivalent to the English surname
Brown or, particularly for the form "Bruins", be
patronymic as Bruin/Bruijn is a now rare Dutch form of
Bruno.[1][2] The form "the brown" (
De Bruin, De Bruine,
De Bruijn,
De Bruyn and
De Bruyne) is more common.
Joe Bruin, mascot of the University of California, Los Angeles sports teams
References
^Bruin at the Database of Surnames in The Netherlands
^Bruin at the Corpus of First Names in The Netherlands.
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