The elkington Surname
elkington Name Meaning and History
English: habitational name from North or South Elkington in
Lincolnshire, so named from an Old English personal name (possibly
Ea(n)lac) + Old English tun ‘enclosure’,
‘settlement’. Elkington in Northamptonshire is not the source of the
family name: it did not acquire the name until 1617, before which it
was Eltington or Elteton.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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