English: habitational name from a place named Christon, possibly
the one in Somerset (named with Celtic crug ‘hill’ + Old
English tun ‘settlement’), but more likely from Christon
Bank in Northumberland, the surname now occurring predominantly in the
northeastern counties of England.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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