Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : occupational name from Middle Low German brāken ‘to plow fallow land’ or from braken ‘to crush flax’.
  • Possibly an altered spelling of Swiss German Bracher.
  • Swiss German (Bräcker) : variant of Brägger (see Brager).

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