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taunton Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from Taunton in Somerset, Taunton Farm in Coulsdon, Surrey, or Tanton in North Yorkshire. The Somerset place name was originally a combination of a Celtic river name (now the Tone, possibly meaning ‘roaring stream’) + Old English tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. The Surrey name is possibly from Old English tan ‘branch’, ‘stalk’ + tun, while Tanton was named in Old English as ‘settlement (tun) on the Tame’, another Celtic river name.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The taunton name in History

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Distribution of taunton Families in the US in 1920
Number of taunton families
 14-25
 5-13		 1-4
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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