The melton Surname
melton Name Meaning and History
Northern English: habitational name from any of various places, for
example in Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, and Yorkshire, all
of which have the same origin as Middleton, with Old English
middel replaced by its Old Norse equivalent meðal
after the Scandinavian settlement of northern and eastern England.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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