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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from any of various places, for example in Berkshire, Oxfordshire, and Suffolk, named Brightwell, from Old English beorht ‘bright’, ‘clear’ + well(a) ‘spring’, ‘stream’.

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