The brantley Surname
brantley Name Meaning and History
Americanized spelling of Swiss German Brändle and
Brändli (also Brändly), topographic names for
someone who lived near a place where there had been a forest fire or
in an area of town that had been burned down.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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