Brockman Coat of Arms, Crest and Name Facts

Brockman? Think of it as Brock with a different pen. At root, the name means “Badger, or dweller by a brook”.

• Brockman sounds close to Brockmann, Brickman and Bruckmann, so it can help to search both.
• Brockman adds -man to the root of Brock, a common way of forming related surnames.
• 11,204 Americans were listed as Brockman in the 2010 census. That is enough to place it in the top 5,000 American surnames.
• Related forms: Brocke, Broeck and Broucke.
• Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them.

Brockman coat of arms

Arms linked to Brock and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. Want more than a summary? See the Brockman family name pack.