The dunton Surname
dunton Name Meaning and History
English: habitational name from any of various places called
Dunton. Most (for example those in Bedfordshire, Essex,
Leicestershire, Norfolk, and Warwickshire) are named from Old English
dun ‘hill’ (see Down 1) + tun ‘enclosure’,
‘settlement’. One in Buckinghamshire probably has as its first element
the Old English personal name Dudda (see Dodd).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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