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The eaton Surname

eaton Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from any of the numerous places so named from Old English ea ‘river’ or eg ‘island’, ‘low-lying land’ + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The eaton name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the eaton family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of eaton Families in the US in 1920
Number of eaton families
 413-824
 138-412		 1-137
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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