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charleston Name Meaning and History

English: patronymic (with intrusive -t-) from the personal name Charles. The various places called Charleston are all of recent origin, so they are unlikely to be the source of the surname.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of charleston Families in the US in 1920
Number of charleston families
 19-35
 7-18		 1-6
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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