Brisk Family History
Brisk Name Meaning
Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): habitational name from Brisk the Yiddish name of the cities Brest (formerly Brest-Litovsk) in Belarus and Brześć Kujawski in Poland. Compare Brest American shortened (and altered) form of Polish Brzeski and possibly also Brzyski or Slovenian and Croatian Briški (see Briski ). American shortened and altered form of Polish Brużdziński which is a variant of Brudziński: unexplained.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022