Fenton Family History
Fenton Name Meaning
Irish: English surname adopted by
bearers of Gaelic Ó Fionnachta (see Finnerty) or
Ó Fiachna ‘descendant of Fiachna’, an old personal
name Anglicized as Feighney and sometimes mistranslated as
Hunt (see Fee).Jewish (Ashkenazic):
Americanized form of various like-sounding names, for example
Finkelstein (see Funke).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Fenton Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Fenton families
 165 - 328  56 - 164 |
 1 - 55  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Fenton families
|
696 - 1,389 233 - 695 |
1 - 232 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Fenton families
|
133 - 264 45 - 132 |
1 - 44 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Fenton Family Origin
Fenton Immigration Information
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Fenton Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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