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The edgerton Surname

edgerton Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from either of two places, in Kent and Cheshire, called Egerton. The former is so called from Old English Ecgheardingtun ‘settlement (Old English tun) associated with Ecgheard’ (see Eckert); the second, which is the main source of the surname, is more likely to have been named as the ‘settlement of Ecghere’ (in which the second element is Old English here ‘army’).

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Distribution of edgerton Families in the US in 1920
Number of edgerton families
 59-116
 20-58		 1-19
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