Layton Family History
Layton Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places so called,
for example in Lancashire (near Blackpool) and in North Yorkshire. The
former was named in Old English as ‘settlement by the watercourse’,
from Old English lad ‘watercourse’ + tun
‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’; the latter as ‘leek enclosure’ or ‘herb
garden’, from leac ‘leek’ + tun. Compare
Leighton.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Layton Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Layton families
 140 - 278  47 - 139 |
 1 - 46  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Layton families
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254 - 506 85 - 253 |
1 - 84 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Layton families
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3 - 4 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Layton Family Origin
Layton Immigration Information
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Layton Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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