Family name origins & meanings
- Scottish : Anglicized form of the Gaelic surname Mac an Bhreatnaich ‘son of the Briton’, originally denoting a Strathclyde Welsh-speaking Briton. It was applied in Ireland also to people from Brittany. Compare Brett, McBratney.
- Swedish (Brattén) : ornamental name composed of the personal name Bratt + the surname suffix -én, from Latin -enius ‘descendant of’.
- variant of Norwegian Braaten.