Last name origins & meanings:
- Dutch: nickname for a trickster, from Old French barat,
Middle Dutch baraet, beraet ‘deceit’, ‘fraud’,
‘ruse’.
- Norwegian: variant of Braaten or
Bratt.
- Albert Andriessen Bradt (1607–1686), a settler in
Rensselaerswijck on the upper Hudson, was of Norwegian origin, from
Fredrikstad, Norway. He was also known as de Norrman ‘the
Norwegian’. See <xref>Norman</xref>.
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