as a First Name
Mainly U.S.: transferred use of the surname, in origin a local name from a place near Exminster in Devon, called in Old English Brӯningtūn ‘settlement associated with Brӯni’. The latter is a personal name derived from bryne ‘fire, flame’. The modern given name may also be a variant of Branton.
| 2,348th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 6,680
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- 9,747
- if you include dead people (since the government started keeping track)
- Kansas
- has the most people named Brenton per capita
- 1984
- marked the height of its popularity
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