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singleton Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from places in Lancashire and Sussex. The former seems from the present-day distribution of the surname to be the major source, and is named from Old English scingel ‘shingle(s)’ + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’; the latter gets its name from Old English sengel ‘burnt clearing’ + tun.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of singleton Families in the US in 1920
Number of singleton families
 498-993
 167-497		 1-166
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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