Brick Family History

Irish: Anglicized form of Ó Bric ‘descendant of Breac’ a personal name from the adjective meaning ‘freckled’. Compare Brack probably derived from breac as an epithet. Welsh: from ap y Brych ‘son of a man called y Brych (‘the freckled one’)’. Compare 1 above.

English: topographic name for someone who lived at a place where birch trees grew from a metathesized form of Middle English birke or a habitational name from a place so named. Compare Birch Britch and Birks.

German: topographic name for someone who lived in a swampy wood from brick breck ‘swamp wood’. Jewish (Ashkenazic): from Yiddish brik ‘bridge’ probably a topographic name.

Americanized form of German Brück (see Bruck). Americanized form of Slovenian Bric (see Britz).