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alton Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from any of the many places called Alton, in Derbyshire, Dorset, Hampshire, Leicestershire, Staffordshire, Wiltshire, Worcestershire, and elsewhere. The origin is various: Alton in Derbyshire and Alton Grange in Leicestershire probably have as their first element Old English (e)ald ‘old’. Those in Hampshire, Dorset, and Wiltshire are at the sources of rivers, and are named in Old English as ‘settlement (tun) at the source (?wiell)’. Others derive from various Old English personal names; for example, the one in Staffordshire is formed with an unattested personal name, Ælfa, and one in Worcestershire, Eanulfintun in 1023, is ‘settlement associated with (-ing) Eanwulf’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of alton Families in the US in 1920
Number of alton families
 39-76
 14-38		 1-13
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Rose Alton of Ohio CarlaRameyGray 2
John Marion, William thomas,and John c Alton amy_alton 1
Mrs. Alton of Raber, Michigan in 1891 BasketLady420 0
John Alton Alton 18
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Sarah Alton b.1741 orangeskittle77 2
William Alton, 1700, Marblehead, Massachusetts GaryR48 2
Ralph Alton MykeHeidi 3
Rose Alton of Ohio CarlaRameyGray 0
Fred Alton of Quebec,Canada & Ripley,Me. Deborah Cross 4
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