Probably English: habitational name from a place in Greater
Manchester (formerly in Lancashire), so named from Old English
eg ‘well-watered land’ + tun ‘farmstead’,
‘settlement’ + feld ‘open country’. However, there are no
records of this as a surname in the British Isles today, and it may
have been adopted by settlers on arrival in the U.S. This name is
concentrated in the GA and FL. UK 0.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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