English: habitational name from any of various places named
Wolverton, as for example the one in Buckinghamshire, or from
Woolverton in Somerset or Wolferton in Norfolk, all of which are named
from the Old English personal name Wulfhere + -ing-
denoting association + tun ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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