First name origin & meaning:
English: From the bright town
First name variations: Breighton, Brightin, Bryton, Brighton
Last name origins & meanings:
- English: from a Middle English nickname or personal name,
meaning ‘bright’, ‘fair’, ‘pretty’, from Old English beorht
- English: from a short form of any of several
Old English personal names of which beorht was the first
element, such as Beorhthelm ‘bright helmet’. Compare
- Americanized form of German Brecht.
- Americanized spelling of German Breit.
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