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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from a place in Somerset named Bruton, ‘settlement (Old English tūn) on the Brue river’. The river name is derived from a British element cognate with Welsh bryw ‘brisk’, ‘vigorous’.

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