English: habitational name from a place called Lutton in
Northamptonshire named in Old English as Ludingtun (see
Lutton) or from Luddington in Lincolnshire, recorded in
Domesday Book as Ludintone, both named from the Old English
personal name Luda + -ing- denoting association with +
tun ‘estate’, ‘settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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