Meaning & origin
What it means
Brackens is a form of Bracken. As an Irish surname, Bracken goes back to a word meaning “descendant of Breacán.”
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Where it comes from
Brackens is a form of Bracken. Bracken has more than one origin: as an Irish surname, it goes back to a word meaning “descendant of Breacán”; as an English surname, it comes from Middle English bracken.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Brackens’s family of names
In English usage, Brackens as a surname has a related form in Bracken.
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