Brake Family History
Brake Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived by a clump of
bushes or by a patch of bracken. Brake ‘thicket’ and
brake ‘bracken’ were homonyms in Middle English. The first is
from Old English bracu; the second is by folk etymology from
northern Middle English braken, -en being taken as a
plural ending. After the words had fallen together, their senses also
became confused.North German: habitational name from any of
several places so named, notably the town on the Weser, or a
topographic name from Middle Low German brak ‘clearing’,
‘coppice’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Brake Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Brake families
 127 - 251  43 - 126 |
 1 - 42  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Brake families
|
2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Brake Family Origin
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Brake Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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