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Updated June 9, 2019

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.

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