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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from Middle English, Old French brachet, denoting a type of hound. The word was also used as a term of abuse.
  • Captain Richard Brackett (1610–c. 1691) came to Boston, MA, in about 1629, and moved to Braintree, MA, in 1641.

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