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The ditton Surname

ditton Name Meaning and History

  1. habitational name from any of the numerous places named Ditton, for example in Cheshire, Kent, Cambridgeshire, and Surrey, from Old English dic ‘ditch’, ‘dike’ + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.
  2. habitational name from Ditton Priors in Shropshire, recorded in Domesday Book as Dodintone ‘settlement (Old English tun) associated with a man called Dod(d)a or Dud(d)a’.

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Distribution of ditton Families in the US in 1920
Number of ditton families
 17-31
 6-16
 1-5
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