English: habitational name of uncertain origin, possibly from
places in Lancashire and East and West Yorkshire named Weeton, from
Old English wiðig ‘willow’ + tun ‘settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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