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AchenbachGerman Habitational name from places in Hesse and Westphalia named Achenbach, from the obsolete word Ach or Ache (from Middle High German ahe meaning "water", "stream") + Bach meaning "brook".
AkçayTurkish From Turkish ak meaning "white" and çay meaning "stream, brook".
AshbrookEnglish Derived from Ampney St Mary, a small village and civil parish locally known as "Ashbrook", in Gloucestershire, England (recorded in the Domesday Book as Estbroce). It is named with Old English est meaning "east, eastern" and broc meaning "brook, stream".
BäcklundSwedish Combination of Swedish bäck "brook, stream" and Lund "grove".
BäckströmSwedish Combination of Swedish bäck "brook, small stream" and ström "stream".
BaechliGerman (Swiss) Derived from the word "Bächli," which means "small brook" in Swiss German.
BeckiusSwedish Combination of Swedish bäck "small stream, brook" and the common surname suffix -ius.
BeckleyEnglish This surname was taken from an English habitational name from any of the various places, in Kent, Oxfordshire, and Sussex, named Beckley whose name was derived from the Old English byname Becca and the Old English lēah "woodland clearing".... [more]
BeeksDutch From Dutch beek meaning "brook, stream".
BraybrookeEnglish From the name of the Northamptonshire village of Braybrooke, meaning "the broad brook."
BrockhausGerman Occupational hereditary surname for a person who was physically powerful, derived from Old German brock which may refer to persons with a stocky or strong build. Or derived from Old German "Brook" or "Brauk," for people near a marshy landscape, common in northern regions.
BrogdenEnglish From the name of a place in West Yorkshire meaning "valley brook", from Old English broc "brook" and denu "valley".
BrooksbyEnglish Means "farm by a brook". From Old English broc "brook, small stream" and Old Norse býr "farm, settlement"
BroughtonEnglish Habitational name from any of the many places so called in England. The first name element is derived from Old English broc "brook", burh "fortress", or beorg "castle". The second element is derived from Old English tun "settlement, dwelling".
BruchGerman Topographic name for someone who lived by a marsh or a stream that frequently flooded, from Middle High German bruoch "water meadow" or "marsh" (cognate to old English broc "brook", "stream" cf... [more]
BurbidgeAnglo-Saxon This interesting name is of Anglo-Saxon origin and is a dialectal variant of the locational surname, deriving from any of the places called "Burbage", in the counties of Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Wiltshire... [more]
CarisbrookEnglish Carisbrooke is a village on the Isle of Wight; the name is thought to mean "Carey's brook". When in 1917 the British royal family changed its name from the "House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha" to the "House of Windsor" and renounced all German titles, the title of Marquess of Carisbrooke was created for the erstwhile German Prince Alexander of Battenberg.
ÇayTurkish Means "river, brook, creek" in Turkish.
ClutterbuckEnglish English surname of unknown origin, possibly a corrupted form of a Dutch surname derived from Dutch klateren "to clatter" and beek "brook", or from klateren and bok "buck, billy goat", or from an older form of kladboek meaning "account book, minute book".
DalglishScottish Derived from Gaelic dail meaning "field" and glaise meaning "brook".
DereTurkish Means "creek, brook, stream" in Turkish.
DualRomansh Derived from the preposition de "of" and Romansh ual "brook, creek".
HoebekeDutch, Flemish A habitational name meaning "high brook", from Old Dutch hō "high" and beke "brook, stream, creek".
KawashimaJapanese From Japanese 川 (kawa) meaning "river, stream, brook" and 島 (shima) or 嶋 (shima) both meaning "island".
OjasteEstonian From Estonian oja meaning "brook, creek".
OverbeekeDutch Means "over the creek", from Dutch over "over, above" and beek "brook, creek".
PoortvlietDutch From the name of the village and former municipality called Poortvliet in the province of Zeeland in the Netherlands, derived from Middle Dutch port meaning "port, harbour, storage yard, city" and vliet meaning "brook, stream, river, creek, inlet"... [more]