English: habitational name from any of the very numerous places in
England named Drayton, from Old English dræg ‘drag’,
‘portage’, ‘slipway’, or ‘sledge’ (a place where boats were dragged
across land or where loads had to be dragged uphill or on sledges
across wet ground, from dragan ‘to draw or drag’) +
tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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