Walton Family History
Walton Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the numerous places called
Walton. The first element in these names was variously Old English
walh ‘foreigner’, ‘Briton’, genitive plural wala (see
Wallace), w(e)ald ‘forest’, w(e)all ‘wall’, or
wæll(a) ‘spring’, ‘stream’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Walton Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Walton families
 426 - 849  143 - 425 |
 1 - 142  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Walton families
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2,364 - 4,726 789 - 2,363 |
1 - 788 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Walton families
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63 - 123 22 - 62 |
1 - 21 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Walton Family Origin
Walton Immigration Information
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Walton Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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