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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’.

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Distribution of boynton Families in the US in 1920
Number of boynton families
 140-278
 47-139		 1-46
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