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The dalton Surname

dalton Name Meaning and History

  1. English: habitational name from any of the various places, for example in Cumbria, County Durham, Lancashire, Northumberland, and Yorkshire, named Dalton, from Old English dæl ‘valley’ (see Dale) + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.
  2. English and Irish (of Norman origin): habitational name for someone from Autun (d’Autun) in Seine-et-Loire, France. The place name derives from the Latin form Augustodunum, a compound of the imperial name Augustus + the Gaulish element dun ‘hill’, ‘fort’.

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

Distribution of dalton Families in the US in 1920
Number of dalton families
 358-713
 120-357		 1-119
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