The surname Brenton indicates that one's ancestors came from a place called Brenton near Exminster, Devon, south West England, the original meaning of which was "Bryni's homestead".
Bryni was an Old English given name based on the word bryne, "flame".
It has been one of the thousand most common names for boys born in the United States since 1966.
[2] The name can be commonly found in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
Its popularity in Australian and the US increased in the 1980s due to the TV miniseries All the Rivers Run, based on the 1958 novel of the same name by Nancy Cato, which contained a character named Brenton Edwards.