Family name origins & meanings
- English : habitational name from Brinton in Norfolk, named in Old English as Br̄ningtūn ‘settlement (Old English tūn) associated with (-ing-) Br̄ni’ (a personal name based on Old English bryne ‘fire’, ‘flame’), or from any of various other places with names of the same origin, such as Brineton in Staffordshire, Brimpton in Berkshire, Brenton in Devon, Brington in Cambridgeshire or (Great and Little) Brington in Northamptonshire.
- William Brinton (1635–99) came from Staffordshire, England, to West Chester, PA, in 1684–85.