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denton Name Meaning and History

English and Scottish: habitational name from any of the numerous places so called. The vast majority, including those in Cambridgeshire, Cumbria, Dumfries, County Durham, Kent, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Northumberland, Oxfordshire, Sussex, and West Yorkshire, are named from Old English denu ‘valley’ (see Dean 1) + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. An isolated example in Northamptonshire appears in Domesday Book as Dodintone ‘settlement associated with Dodda’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of denton Families in the US in 1920
Number of denton families
 163-323
 55-162		 1-54
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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