Family name origins & meanings
- German : variant of Brotbeck, an occupational name for a baker, from Middle High German brōt ‘bread’ + beck ‘baker’.
- Probably a respelling of Swedish Brobäck, an ornamental name composed of the elements bro ‘bridge’ + bäck ‘stream’, or the Norwegian cognates Brobeckk, Brubekk, which may be topographic or habitational names.