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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Swiss German (Bräker) : probably a habitational name for someone from Bräg in the district of Toggenburg. Compare Brager.
  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : nickname or occupational name from Yiddish braker ‘chooser (of inferior goods)’.

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