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brick Name Meaning and History
- Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Bruic ‘descendant of Broc’, i.e. ‘Badger’ (sometimes so translated) or Ó Bric ‘descendant of Breac’, a personal name meaning ‘freckled’.
- English: possibly, as Reaney suggests, a nickname from Old English br¯ce ‘fragile’, ‘worthless’.
- German: topographic name for someone who lived in a swampy wood, brick, breck ‘swamp’, ‘wood’.
- Jewish (Ashkenazic): from Yiddish brik ‘bridge’, probably a topographic name.
- Altered spelling of German Brück (see Bruck).
- In some cases it may be an altered spelling of Slovenian Bric, regional name for someone from the hilly region of western Slovenia called Brda, a plural form of brdo ‘rising ground’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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