Family name origins & meanings
- English : topographic or metonymic occupational name, a variant of Bridge, with fused Anglo-Norman French article and preposition del (‘of the’).
- Partly Americanized form of German Delbrück, a habitational name from any of several places named Dellbrücke, in Schleswig-Holstein, near Paderborn, and near Cologne. The place name denotes a boarded crossing through swampy terrain.