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aston Name Meaning and History

  1. habitational name from any of several places in England called Aston. Most were named from Old English east ‘east’ + tun ‘settlement’. In a few cases the first element is æsc ‘ash tree’.
  2. from a Middle English personal name, Astan(us), which is probably a survival of Old English Æ{dh}elstan or one of the other names mentioned at Alston.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The aston name in History

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Distribution of aston Families in the US in 1920
Number of aston families
 46-89
 16-45		 1-15
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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