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English
English : habitational name from any of several minor places named with Middle English braken ‘bracken’ (from Old English bræcen or Old Norse brakni) + Old Norse berg ‘hill’, among them Brackenber in West Yorkshire and Cumbria, Brackenborough in Lincolnshire, and Breckenbrough in North Yorkshire.
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Scottish
Scottish : nickname from Gaelic breac ‘speckled’.English : unexplained.German : topographic name related to Middle Low German brÄke ‘uncultivated land’.Breck was the name of a Massachusetts Bay family prominent in the earliest settlement. Edward Breck settled in Dorchester, MA, in 1636, and died there in 1662.
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Irish
Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Bruic ‘descendant of Broc’, i.e. ‘Badger’ (sometimes so translated) or Ó Bric ‘descendant of Breac’, a personal name meaning ‘freckled’.English : possibly, as Reaney suggests, a nickname from Old English br̄ce ‘fragile’, ‘worthless’.German : topographic name for someone who lived in a swampy wood, brick, breck ‘swamp’, ‘wood’.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from Yiddish brik ‘bridge’, probably a topographic name.Altered spelling of German Brück (see Bruck).In some cases it may be an altered spelling of Slovenian Bric, regional name for someone from the hilly region of western Slovenia called Brda, a plural form of brdo ‘rising ground’.
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