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middleton Name Meaning and History

English and Scottish: habitational name from any of the places so called. In over thirty instances from many different areas, the name is from Old English midel ‘middle’ + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. However, Middleton on the Hill near Leominster in Herefordshire appears in Domesday Book as Miceltune, the first element clearly being Old English micel ‘large’, ‘great’. Middleton Baggot and Middleton Priors in Shropshire have early spellings that suggest gem¯ðhyll (from gem¯ð ‘confluence’ + hyll ‘hill’) + tun as the origin.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of middleton Families in the US in 1920
Number of middleton families
 266-530
 89-265		 1-88
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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