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stockton Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from any of the places, for example in Cheshire, County Durham, Hertfordshire, Norfolk, Shropshire, Warwickshire, Wiltshire, Worcestershire, and North and West Yorkshire, so called from Old English stocc ‘tree trunk’ or stoc ‘dependent settlement’ + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. It is not possible to distinguish between the two first elements on the basis of early forms.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of stockton Families in the US in 1920
Number of stockton families
 88-173
 30-87		 1-29
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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