English: habitational name from any of several places in
Merseyside, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, and Staffordshire called
Gayton, or from Gayton le Marsh or Gayton le Wold in Lincolnshire. The
Northamptonshire and Staffordshire place names are from an Old English
personal name G?ga + tun ‘farmstead’; the others
are from Old Norse geit ‘goat’ + tún ‘farmstead’.French: diminutive of Gayte, a southern variant of
guette ‘watch’, and hence an occupational name for a watchman.
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Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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