Engelbrecht (or Englebrecht, Engelbrekt) is a common family name (surname) of Germanic origin.
The Surname Database says the name is a Dutch variant of an Old High German given name sometimes spelled Ingelbert or Engelbert.
[1] Engel can translate as "Angle" (the name of a German folk hero), a person from Angeln, or "angel".
[1][2][3] The first spelling variant of this name recorded in a survey was the Latinized given name Engelbricus in the Domesday Book of 1089.
Robert Ingleberd was the first record of a variant of "Engelbrecht" used as a family name, dated 1230 in the Pipe rolls of Yorkshire.