French and English: from Old French bastun ‘stick’,
hence a nickname for a person of authority, an officious person, or
perhaps for a beadle or verger.
English: habitational name from
Baston in Lincolnshire, named with the Old Norse personal name
Bak + Old English tun ‘farmstead’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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