Walton (surname)

Walton is a toponymic surname or placename of Anglo-Saxon origins. It derives from a place with the suffix tun ('town, farm, hamlet') and one of the prefixes wald ('a wood'), walesc ('foreigner') or walh ('farm worker'). First recorded as a surname in Oxfordshire in the person of Odo de Wolton on the Hundred Rolls in 1273.[1] People with the name include:

Walton
Origin
Word/nameAnglo-Saxon
Meaninghabitational name for a place called Walton
Region of originOxfordshire


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  1. surnamedb.com, URL accessed 18 September 2010
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