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elton Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from any of the various places so called. For the most part they derive from the Old English personal name Ella or Elli (see Ellington) + Old English tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. One in Berkshire, however, gets its first element from the Old English female personal name Æ{dh}elfl?d (composed of the elements æ{dh}el ‘noble’ + fl?d ‘beauty’). One in Cambridgeshire has its first element from the personal name Æ{dh}elheah (composed of the elements æ{dh}el ‘noble’ + heah ‘high’). The place of this name in County Durham probably gets its first element from Old English ?l ‘eel’.

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

Distribution of elton Families in the US in 1920
Number of elton families
 27-52
 10-26
 1-9
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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