Last name: BROTHERTON
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Last name frequency
BROTHERTON : This last name is indexed 29,407 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
BROTHERTON : English: habitational name from Brotherton in North Yorkshire and occasionally from the now lost Brotherton in Hacheston Suffolk; both are named with Old English brōthor ‘brother’ or the Old Norse personal name Bróthir + Old English tūn ‘farmstead enclosure’.
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- London (97)
- Harwich (95)
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