Forest Names

of the brook

brook, stream

water, stream, or from the brook

From the brook; also a variant of Brooklyn, meaning 'broken land' or 'marshland'

broken land, marshland

dweller by the brook

Of the brook; living near a brook or stream

of the brook's bank

broom (shrub) or dweller by the broom

settlement by the brook

brook's water meadow

from the brushwood

thorn, bramble

bridge, heath, brow

From the brushwood thicket; from the town of Brix

mist, fog

abrupt, sudden, lively

Of the brushwood, or a badger

briar, thorny bush

heather

hill, high place

thorny plant; briar patch

Thorny plant; heather

place of heather

Briar meadow

Briar clearing

hill, high place, or strength

from the burnt clearing

burned meadow

burned meadow

burnt clearing

to sprout, to grow

to sprout, to bud

to sprout, to swell

to swell, to sprout

Birch-oak

at the oak home

A flower or blossom, symbolizing beauty and new beginnings.

Male deer; also a nickname for a lively or dashing man

from the buck clearing or deer meadow

buck's man; deer hunter

from the buck's meadow

herdsman, cowherd

a flower bud; a young man or boy; brother

Born during the Harmattan season; also, lean or slim

First bloom, first flower

from the beautiful ford

steam, vapor