English: habitational name from either of two places, in
Staffordshire and North Yorkshire, named Calton, from Old English
calf ‘calf’ + tun ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’. There
are also numerous minor places so named, notably in Yorkshire and
Derbyshire, and they may also have given rise to the surname in some
instances.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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