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The carlton Surname

carlton Name Meaning and History

  1. English: habitational name from any of various places called Carleton or Carlton, from Old Norse karl ‘common man’, ‘peasant’ + Old English tun ‘settlement’ (compare Charlton 1). Places spelled Carl(e)ton (as opposed to Charlton) are in areas of Scandinavian settlement, mostly in northern England.
  2. Irish: Americanized and altered form of Carlin 1.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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carlton Family Facts

Distribution of carlton Families in the US in 1920
Number of carlton families
 105-208
 36-104		 1-35
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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