Keeton Family History
Keeton Name Meaning
English: habitational name from a place called Ketton in Durham or
one in Rutland or from Keaton in Ermington, Devon. The first is named
from the Old English personal name Catta or the Old Norse
personal name Káti + Old English tun ‘settlement’;
the second is probably from an old river name or tribal name
Cetan (possibly a derivative of Celtic ced ‘wood’)
+ Old English ea ‘river’; and the last possibly from Cornish
kee ‘hedge’, ‘bank’ + Old English tun.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Keeton Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Keeton families
 56 - 109  19 - 55 |
 1 - 18  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Keeton families
|
83 - 164 28 - 82 |
1 - 27 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Keeton Family Origin
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Keeton Family Occupations
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