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Updated June 9, 2019

Girl name origins & meanings

  • Irish : Freckled

Girl name variations

Breckin

Breckin

- 48% this year
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Brecklyn

Brecklyn

- 20% this year
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Brecklynn

Brecklynn

- 24% this year
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How Popular Is The Name Breck

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish : nickname from Gaelic breac ‘speckled’.
  • English : unexplained.
  • German : topographic name related to Middle Low German brāke ‘uncultivated land’.
  • Breck was the name of a Massachusetts Bay family prominent in the earliest settlement. Edward Breck settled in Dorchester, MA, in 1636, and died there in 1662.

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