Bretton
A boys’ name of Old English origin, meaning britons' settlement or dweller at a breton farm.
Babies a year
12
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
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outside the ONS list
Bretton by the numbers
Bretton was given to 12 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 36 babies in 1987, making it a 1980s name.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Bretton. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Other names that mean a craft or trade
Like Bretton, each of these has a craft or trade in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Masonstone worker13,560 in the US (2017)
- Graysonson of the steward8,767 in the US (2017)
- Skylarscholar, learned one; a modern respelling of Schuyler4,984 in the US (2017)
- Chaseto hunt; one who hunts4,207 in the US (2017)
- Georgefarmer, earth worker3,082 in England and Wales (2025)
- Baileybailiff or steward of a castle2,561 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Bretton
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