The banton Surname
banton Name Meaning and History
English: habitational name of uncertain origin. There is a place so
called in Strathclyde region and a Banton House in Lancashire; the
present-day concentration of the surname in the Derbyshire area
suggests the latter may be the more likely source. In some instances
the name may have arisen from a place called Bampton, in particular,
one in Cumbria, named with Old English beam
‘trunk’, ‘beam’ + tun ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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