Houghton Family History
Houghton Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the various places so
called. The majority, with examples in at least fourteen counties, get
the name from Old English hoh ‘ridge’, ‘spur’ (literally
‘heel’) + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. Haughton in
Nottinghamshire also has this origin, and may have contributed to the
surname. A smaller group of Houghtons, with examples in Lancashire and
South Yorkshire, have as their first element Old English halh
‘nook’, ‘recess’. In the case of isolated examples in Devon and East
Yorkshire, the first elements appear to be unattested Old English
personal names or bynames, of which the forms approximate to
Huhha and Hofa respectively, but the meanings are
unknown.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Houghton Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Houghton families
 183 - 364  62 - 182 |
 1 - 61  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Houghton families
|
2,321 - 4,640 774 - 2,320 |
1 - 773 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Houghton families
|
8 - 14 3 - 7 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Houghton Family Origin
Houghton Immigration Information
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Houghton Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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