Family name origins & meanings
- German : probably a shortened form of any of various compound names containing the element Braten ‘roast’ (from Middle High German brāte), as for example Bradenahl (‘baked eel’) or Bratengeiger, a nickname for a fiddler (from a derivative of Middle High German gīge ‘fiddle’, ‘violin’) who was paid in food rather than cash.
- Variant spelling of Norwegian Bråten (see Braaten).