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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (Durham) : habitational name from Brantingham in East Yorkshire, named in Old English as ‘the homestead (hām) of the people of Branta’, or possibly as ‘homestead of the people living on a hillside’, from Old English brant ‘hillside’, ‘steep slope’.

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