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gratton Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from any of various places so named. Gratton in Derbyshire is from Old English great ‘great’ + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. Gratton in High Bray, Devon, is probably ‘great hill’, from Old English great + dun. A number of minor places in Devon are named from the dialect word gratton, gratten ‘stubble-field’.

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Distribution of gratton Families in the US in 1920
Number of gratton families
 21-40
 8-20
 1-7
 0
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