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shotton Name Meaning and History

English (mainly northeastern): habitational name from places so called in County Durham and Northumberland. The former is named with an unattested Old English sceot ‘steep slope’ + Old English tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’, the latter with Old English scota, genitive plural of scot ‘Scot’ + dun ‘hill’. The surname may also have been a topographic name for someone who lived by an enclosure on a slope.

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Distribution of shotton Families in the US in 1920
Number of shotton families
 16-30
 6-15
 1-5
 0
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