as a Last Name
- 5,315
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Brake
Meaning & Origins
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.
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 5,315
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Missouri
- has the most people named Brake per capita
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