English: habitational name from any of the many places in all parts
of England called Broughton. The first element is variously Old
English broc ‘brook’, burh ‘fortress’, or
beorg ‘hill’, ‘mound’; the second is in all cases Old English
tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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