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horton Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from any of the various places so called. The majority, with examples in at least fourteen counties, are named from Old English horh ‘mud’, ‘slime’ or horn ‘dirt’ + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. One in southern Gloucestershire, however, is named from Old English heorot ‘hart’ + dun ‘hill’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of horton Families in the US in 1920
Number of horton families
 684-1365
 229-683		 1-228
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wheate in australia lyndagiffen2004 0
rupert horton 1897 lyndagiffen2004 0
Hortons IL. Hissparrow2 4
HORTON - Alabama (1871) angelears 18
Death of Isaac O. Horton Sr. Lynda Wise 2
Horton families of Midlands UK jdhorton1 0
Help on the Dorothy Horton who married David Doane on 30 Sep 1701 rhall17423 1
horton, michigan craja05 24
Gordon Horton Iowa/Michigan/Wyoming kathylock 12
Hortons - Campbells VirginiaWood87 4
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