Family name origins & meanings
- Norwegian : habitational name from any of various farms so called in eastern Norway, which may have originally derived their name from a river name meaning ‘roaring’, ‘thundering’.
- South German (Bräger) : habitational name for someone from Bräg in Bavaria.
- Altered spelling of Swiss German Bräg(g)er, a habitational name for someone from Bräg in Toggenburg district.