Frequency: (373)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
North German (Bröcker): topographic name for someone who lived by a swamp, from Middle Low German brook ‘bog’ + the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant.
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