as a Last Name
- 4,597
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Brotherton
Meaning & Origins
English: habitational name from either of two places called Brotherton, in North Yorkshire and Suffolk; both are named with Old English brōðor ‘brother’ or the Old Scandinavian personal name Bróðir + Old English tūn ‘farmstead’, ‘enclosure’.
| 6,396th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 4,597
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Missouri
- has the most people named Brotherton per capita
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