The charlton Surname
charlton Name Meaning and History
- English: habitational name from any of the numerous places called Charlton, mainly in southern England, from Old English Ceorlatun ‘settlement (Old English tun) of the peasants’. Old English ceorl denoted originally a free peasant of the lowest rank, later (but probably already before the Norman conquest) a tenant in pure villeinage, a serf or bondsman.
- Irish: altered form of Carlin.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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