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[Facts] Meaning of name BRAXTON
I know it's English origin and the only meaning I found was "Bracca's place". New baby boy. Couldn't find any possible personality traits. Help please.
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That's because its a surname indicating a place associated with the bearer's family. Even traditional English given names don't indicate personality traits. That's what nicknames are for. Given names are at most merely a benediction, most lacking any reference to personality; many are given in honor of another person with the same name (saints, prophets, ancestors, celebrities). Bracca may be an unusual form of broc, badger (like Beatrix Potter's Tommy Brock), but in the documented usage "bracca" means "breech", an archaic word for the backside, used these days to refer to butt end of a firearm or gun, and in the phrase "breech birth", where a baby is positioned "butt first". Ton or tun, is not merely a place, it is a settlement of any size (whether of one house and it's outbuildings, or many) originally fortified or enclosed with a fence, wall or embankment. Reportedly in some parts of the UK even recently a single farmyard or farmhouse was known as a "town".
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Names don't determine personality traits.
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A lot of European baby name books like to add personality traits to names, but they do not mean anything and change with the whim of the author. I would suggest consulting a numerologist if that is what you want to know.

This message was edited 1/13/2019, 1:03 PM

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