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brighton Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from Breighton in East Yorkshire, on the river Derwent. This place is named with Old English beorht ‘bright’ or an unattested personal name Beohta + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. The surname is unlikely to derive from Brighton in Sussex, which was known as Brighthelmestone until the end of the 18th century.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of brighton Families in the US in 1920
Number of brighton families
 21-39
 8-20		 1-7
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