Brockett

Boy name variations

Family name origins & meanings

• Scottish : habitational name from a place called Brocket in Ayrshire.
• Scottish and English : from Middle English bro(c)ket, a term denoting a stag in its second year with its first horns (diminutive of Old French brock), probably applied as a nickname.
• John Brockett (died 1690) was one of the founders of New Haven, CT, in 1637/8.