Last name: BRATTON

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BRATTON : This last name is indexed 22,988 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

BRATTON : English: habitational name from any of the places called Bratten (in Shropshire Somerset and Wiltshire) or from Bratton Clovelly or Bratton Fleming in Devon. The Shropshire and Somerset places are named with Old English brōc ‘brook’ + tūn ‘settlement’. The Wiltshire and Devon names are from Old English brǣc ‘newly cultivated ground’ + tūn.

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