The fenton Surname
fenton Name Meaning and History
- English: habitational name from any of various places, in Lincolnshire, Northumberland, Staffordshire, and South Yorkshire, so called from Old English fenn ‘marsh’, ‘fen’ + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’
- Irish: English surname adopted by bearers of Gaelic Ó Fionnachta (see Finnerty) or Ó Fiachna ‘descendant of Fiachna’, an old personal name Anglicized as Feighney and sometimes mistranslated as Hunt (see Fee).
- Jewish (Ashkenazic): Americanized form of various like-sounding names, for example Finkelstein (see Funke).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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