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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch and German : habitational name from a place so called (there is one in North Rhine-Westphalia), originally named as ‘the farmstead (hof) in low-lying pastureland (see Brink)’.
  • Joris Brinkerhoff came to New Netherland from the Netherlands in 1638.

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