The chilton Surname
chilton Name Meaning and History
English: habitational name from any of the various places called
Chilton, for example in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, County Durham,
Hampshire, Kent, Shropshire, Somerset, Suffolk, and Wiltshire. The
majority are shown by early forms to derive from Old English
cild ‘child’ (see Child) + tun ‘enclosure’,
‘settlement’. One place of this name in Somerset possibly gets its
first element from Old English cealc ‘chalk’, ‘limestone’, and
one on the Isle of Wight from the personal name Ceola
(compare Chilcott), or from Old English ceole ‘deep
valley’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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