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Royston Name Meaning
habitational name from a place in Hertfordshire,
recorded in 1262 as Croyroys, from Old French croiz
‘cross’ (Latin crux, genitive crucis) + the female
personal name Royse (see Rose 2). Ekwall mentions forms
from only twenty years later in which the place name first more or
less assumes its modern form. It is not clear, however, whether this
is to be interpreted as ‘Royse’s stone’ (with the second element
Middle English ston, from Old English stan) or
‘settlement at (Croiz) Royse’ (with the second element Middle English
toun, from Old English tun).habitational name
from a place in West Yorkshire, so called from the genitive case of
the Old English byname Hror, meaning ‘vigorous’ (or its Old
Norse cognate Róarr) + Old English tun
‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.Americanized form of one or more
like-sounding Jewish surnames.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Royston Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Royston families
 28 - 53  10 - 27 |
 1 - 9  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Royston families
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264 - 525 89 - 263 |
1 - 88 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Royston families
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2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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