Scottish and English: variant spelling of Yeltoun, a surname
of uncertain origin recorded in Lanarkshire. Black speculates that it
may be a habitational name from Youlton in North Yorkshire, which is
named from the Old Scandinavian personal name Jóli + Old
English tun ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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