as a Last Name
- 13,064
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Brink
Meaning & Origins
North German, Dutch, Danish, and Swedish: topographic name for someone who lived by a pasture or green, from Middle Low German brinc ‘edge’, ‘slope’, ‘grazing land’, especially a raised meadow in low-lying marshland. In both Danish and Swedish brink is a borrowing of Dutch brinck ‘waterside slope’; in Danish it means ‘where the water runs deep’.
| 2,783rd in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 13,064
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- South Dakota
- has the most people named Brink per capita
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