Last name: BRINTON

Welcome at Geneanet!

Welcome at Geneanet!

With Geneanet, find your ancestors from home, create your family tree for free, and explore and share your family history. Genealogy has never been easier, thanks to our database of 9 billion individuals, and our community of enthusiasts.

All you have to know about the last name BRINTON

Last name frequency

BRINTON : This last name is indexed 18,307 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

BRINTON : 1: Scottish: habitational name perhaps from a lost or unidentified place although possibly brought to Scotland from one or more of the English Brintons under 2 below.2: English: habitational name from Brinton in Norfolk named in Old English as Brȳningtūn ‘settlement (Old English tūn) associated with (-ing-) Brȳni’ (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 Great Brington in Essex Brimpton in Berkshire Brimington in Derbyshire Brenton in Devon Brington in Cambridgeshire or (Great and Little) Brington in Northamptonshire.

Learn more

Variants of last name

The spelling of names may have changed over the centuries. Knowing these names variants will help you build your family tree.

Search a name

Discover your ancestors and build your family tree step by step through billions of data included in our members' family trees and through civil records.

Most popular first names

Most indexed countries

Available collections for this name