The kenton Surname
kenton Name Meaning and History
English: habitational name from any of various places so named, for
example in Devon, Greater London (formerly Middlesex), and
Suffolk. All have as the second element Old English tun
‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’. The first element of the place in Devon is
a pre-English river name; the place in London is named with the Old
English personal name Cena; and the place in Suffolk is
named either with Cena or more probably with Old English
cyne- ‘royal’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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