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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from places called Brereton, in Cheshire and Staffordshire. The former is named with Old English brǣr, brēr ‘briar’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’; the latter originally had as its final element Old English dūn ‘hill’.

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