Braisted Family History
Braisted Name Meaning
Americanized form of North German Bredstedt (via its intermediate forms Dutch Van Breestede Americanized Brestead): habitational name from a place so named in Schleswig-Holstein. The surname Bredstedt is very rare in Germany. English (Kent): habitational name from Great and Little Braxted in Essex probably ‘bracken place’ from Old English bracu ‘bracken fern’ + stede ‘place’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022