The Brack Family Name

Spelling was not fixed until the modern era, so Brach could easily become Brack. At root, the name means “Dweller on, or near, the fallow land”.

• Before spelling was fixed, Brach was also written Brack.
• Census takers and immigration officers often wrote what they heard.
• Brack ranked 9,108 in the 2010 US Census, with 3,588 people answering to the name. 303 people born in France between 1891 and 2000 carried the Brack name at birth. There were 23 such births in the 1890s and 25 in the 1990s.

Arms associated with the name

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