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Hi there. Its not that I don't know what my surname - Brittle - means. 'Cos it's a word. :) But does anyone know *where* it comes from? I know there's a Loch Brittle in northern Scotland...
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Your name owes its spelling to the word brittle, but for the meaning we'll have to look somewhere else. It is actually a variant of Brettell, which has French origins: De Breteuille, De Breteuil and Bretteville are some early forms of this name in France. Bret may mean 'Briton', ville means 'town. It is a toponym.
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