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wharton Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from any of various places called Wharton. Examples in Cheshire and Herefordshire are from an Old English river name Wæfer (derived from wæfre ‘wandering’, ‘winding’) + Old English tun ‘settlement’; another in Lincolnshire has as its first element Old English wearde ‘beacon’ or waroð ‘shore’, ‘bank’; one in the former county of Westmorland (now part of Cumbria) is from Old English hwearf ‘wharf’, ‘embankment’ + tun.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of wharton Families in the US in 1920
Number of wharton families
 111-220
 38-110		 1-37
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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