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The layton Surname

layton Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from any of various places so called, for example in Lancashire (near Blackpool) and in North Yorkshire. The former was named in Old English as ‘settlement by the watercourse’, from Old English lad ‘watercourse’ + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’; the latter as ‘leek enclosure’ or ‘herb garden’, from leac ‘leek’ + tun. Compare Leighton.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of layton Families in the US in 1920
Number of layton families
 140-278
 47-139		 1-46
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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