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hinton Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from any of the numerous places so called, which split more or less evenly into two groups with different etymologies. One set (with examples in Berkshire, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Herefordshire, Somerset, and Wiltshire) is named from the Old English weak dative hean (originally used after a preposition and article) of heah ‘high’ + Old English tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. The other (with examples in Cambridgeshire, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Northamptonshire, Shropshire, Somerset, Suffolk, and Wiltshire) has Old English hiwan ‘household’, ‘monastery’. Compare Hine as the first element.

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

Distribution of hinton Families in the US in 1920
Number of hinton families
 187-372
 63-186		 1-62
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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