The boynton Surname
boynton Name Meaning and History
English: habitational name from a place in East Yorkshire named
Boynton, from the Old English personal name Bofa + the
connective particle -ing- denoting association + tun
‘settlement’. Alternatively, the name may have arisen from Boyton in
Wiltshire (recorded in Domesday Book as Boientone) or from
Boyington Court in Kent (recorded in 1207 as Bointon), both of
which are named with the Old English personal name Boia +
tun ‘settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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