Breznik Family History

Slovenian and Croatian: topographic name for someone who lived by a birch tree derived from breza ‘birch tree’ or a habitational name for someone from a place called Brezno from a derivative of the same word.

Slovenian (Brežnik): topographic name for a person who lived on a hillside from a derivative of breg ‘slope’.

Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): habitational name for someone from one of the villages in Eastern Europe called Berezniki in Russian Brzeźniki in Polish, these toponyms meaning ‘forests of birch trees’ (compare 1 above).

Compare Bresnick.