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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch (Van den Broek) : topographic name for someone who lived by a flood plain or a stream that frequently flooded, from broek, ‘water meadow’, ‘flood plain’, or habitational name from any of several places named with this word, for example den Broek in North Holland, Groningen, North Brabant, and elsewhere.

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