English: habitational name from Lampton in Greater London (formerly
Middlesex) or Lambton in County Durham, named in Old English as ‘farm
or settlement where lambs were reared’, from lamb ‘lamb’ +
tun ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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