Brookman Family History
Brookman Name Meaning
English: topographic name from Middle English brokman ‘dweller by the brook’. Compare Brooker and Brookins . Americanized form of German Bruckmann or Brückmann (see Bruckman ). Americanized form of Dutch Broekman: topographic name for someone living by a broek ‘swampy field marsh’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022