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Is the last name BROCK German, Scandinavian, English? There could be a relationship to the name BRACH. Do you know the origin of this last name?
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1. English, Scottish, and North German: variant of Brook.
2. English, Scottish, and Scandinavian: nickname for a person supposedly resembling a badger, Middle English broc(k) (Old English brocc) and Danish brok (a word of Celtic origin; compare Welsh broch, Cornish brogh, Irish broc). In the Middle Ages badgers were regarded as unpleasant creatures.
3. English: nickname from Old French broque, brock ‘young stag’.
4. Dutch: from a personal name, a short form of Brockaert .
5. South German: nickname for a stout and strong man from Middle
High German brocke ‘lump’, ‘piece’.
6. Jewish (Ashkenazic): probably an acronymic family name from Jewish Aramaic bar- or Hebrew ben- ‘son of’, and the first letter of each part of a Yiddish double male personal name. Compare Brill.
7. Jewish (from Poland): habitational name from Brok, a place in Poland.
(Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press)
In Germany it usually has two meanings:
1. dweller by a low valley, "broken" by water, with trees (Middle Low German "brok", modern German "Bruch" (related to "break")
2. from various place-names in North West Germany: Broch, Brock
(Duden, Familiennamen)
2. English, Scottish, and Scandinavian: nickname for a person supposedly resembling a badger, Middle English broc(k) (Old English brocc) and Danish brok (a word of Celtic origin; compare Welsh broch, Cornish brogh, Irish broc). In the Middle Ages badgers were regarded as unpleasant creatures.
3. English: nickname from Old French broque, brock ‘young stag’.
4. Dutch: from a personal name, a short form of Brockaert .
5. South German: nickname for a stout and strong man from Middle
High German brocke ‘lump’, ‘piece’.
6. Jewish (Ashkenazic): probably an acronymic family name from Jewish Aramaic bar- or Hebrew ben- ‘son of’, and the first letter of each part of a Yiddish double male personal name. Compare Brill.
7. Jewish (from Poland): habitational name from Brok, a place in Poland.
(Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press)
In Germany it usually has two meanings:
1. dweller by a low valley, "broken" by water, with trees (Middle Low German "brok", modern German "Bruch" (related to "break")
2. from various place-names in North West Germany: Broch, Brock
(Duden, Familiennamen)
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