Braaksma Family History
Braaksma Name Meaning
West Frisian and Dutch: topographic name for someone who lived by a piece of wasteland or newly cultivated land from Frisian Dutch braak ‘fallow waste’ or ‘place where a dike burst’ + the Frisian suffix -ma which originally denoted ‘(one of the) men of’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022