Family name origins & meanings
- German : topographic name for someone who lived near a bridge, or an occupational name for a bridge keeper or toll collector on a bridge (see Bruck).
- Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : occupational name, either from a Yiddishized form of Polish brukarz ‘paver’ or from an agent noun based on Yiddish bruk ‘pavement’.
- English : variant spelling of Brooker.