Northern English: habitational name from any of various places so
named. Briscoe in Cumberland is named with Old Norse
Bretaskógr ‘wood of the Britons’ (see Brett). Brisco
in Cumberland and Briscoe in North Yorkshire are named with Old Norse
birki ‘birch’ + skógr ‘wood’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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