Brenner Family History

German and Swiss German: from an agent derivative of Middle High German brennen ‘to burn’ in various applications. Often it is an occupational name for a distiller of spirits; it may also refer to a charcoal or lime burner or to someone who cleared forests by burning.

Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a distiller from German Brenner literally ‘burner’ (see 1 above).

English (of Norman origin): occupational name from Old French brenier ‘keeper of the hounds’. See Berner

English: occupational name from Middle English brenner(e) (from an Old Norse agent noun brennari deriving from brenna ‘to burn’) denoting a burner of lime bricks or charcoal.

See Berner