Stretton — Family Name, Records and Arms

Stretton is a branch of the Stratton name tree. In origin, the name means “Farm on a Roman road”.

How the spelling arose

Stretton writes “e” in place of the “a” found in Stratton, a common scribal difference. The same family of names includes Stratten.

259 Americans were listed as Stretton in the 2010 census. That is enough to place it in the top 100,000 American surnames.

Heraldry and the Stretton name

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