English: habitational name from any of the numerous places called
Walton. The first element in these names was variously Old English
walh ‘foreigner’, ‘Briton’, genitive plural wala (see
Wallace), w(e)ald ‘forest’, w(e)all ‘wall’, or
wæll(a) ‘spring’, ‘stream’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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