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helton Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from Helton in Cumbria, named in Old English probably with helde ‘slope’ + tun ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’, or possibly a variant of Hilton. This is a common name in TN, KY, OH, TX, and GA.

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

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

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Distribution of helton Families in the US in 1920
Number of helton families
 171-340
 58-170		 1-57
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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