The last name Brockinger?

Question

Has anybody ever heard the last name Brockinger or know of the Origins of the name?

I've searched everywhere with no luck.

Answer 1

  According to Ancestry.com "Most Brockinger immigrants to the US came from Bremen, Germany." with most of them settleing in Kansas by 1920  When I typed in Brockinger to Google search I came across this page http://www.heraldik-info.de/familienname...   however, it was cached and so cannot be accesed except by clicking on the cached link from Google. Basically, the page iwritten in German, gives the names listed in German Heraldry. Brockinger is listed (and for 15.Euro you can get a coat of arms,, LOL

Here is their email address  [e-mail] )

  I also looked at some other misc sites and they were all in Germany and in German. The spelling is not changed and is as you spelled it.

Hope that helps

Answer 2

There aren't many in the census. Early immigrants were from Germany.

It is possbile that the original name had an umlaut o.

(or Broeckinger)