North German, Dutch, Danish, and Swedish: topographic name for
someone who lived by a pasture or green, from Middle Low German
brinc ‘edge’, ‘slope’, ‘grazing land’, especially a raised
meadow in low-lying marshland. In both Danish and Swedish brink
is a borrowing of Dutch brinck ‘waterside slope’; in Danish it
means ‘where the water runs deep’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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