Surname
Brakefield
“brake, thicket”
Brakefield is a surname from Old English.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Brakefield goes back to Old English bracu, meaning “brake, thicket.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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