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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Probably an altered spelling of North German Brackner or South German Brachner, topographic names from Middle Low German brāk, Middle High German brāch ‘fallow’, ‘uncultivated (land)’, the suffix -ner denoting an inhabitant.

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