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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Dutch : habitational name from places called Bracht, in Westphalia, Rhineland, and Hesse.
  • German and Dutch : from a short form of any of the various personal names containing the second element -bracht (a local variant of -brecht in Rhineland, Westphalia, and elsewhere), such as Albrecht (see Albert).

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