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Brake

in Tennessee

There are 276 people with the last name "Brake" in Tennessee.

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Ranking in Tennessee

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Brake 2,568
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  1. is 2,564th most common Trivette
  2. is 2,565th most common Turnbow
  3. is 2,566th most common Belk
  4. is 2,567th most common Boyland
  5. is 2,568th most common Brake
  6. is 2,569th most common Cardin
  7. is 2,570th most common Ennis
  8. is 2,571st most common Pham
  9. is 2,572nd most common Pullen

Similar Names and Nicknames

Bruce, Brock, Brice, Bracey, Brace, Bryce, Brockway, Bracy, Brack, Brokaw

Most Common First Names for Brake

John, Charles, James, Billy, Roger, William, Anthony, Bobby, Dave, David

Meaning & History

English: topographic name for someone who lived by a clump of bushes or by a patch of bracken. Brake ‘thicket’ and brake ‘bracken’ were homonyms in Middle English. The first is from Old English bracu; the second is by folk etymology from northern Middle English braken, -en being taken as a plural ending. After the words had fallen together, their senses also became confused.

North German: habitational name from any of several places so named, notably the town on the Weser, or a topographic name from Middle Low German brāk ‘clearing’, ‘coppice’.

FOREBEARS Wilhelm Joseph Dietrich, Baron von Brake, of Hannover (Germany), is said to have settled in Nansemond, VA, about 1730. His son Johann Jacob Brake (John Brake) was the progenitor of the VA and WV Brakes; another son, also named Jacob Brake, settled in Edgecombe Co., NC, in 1742, where he sired seven sons and two daughters.

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