Wilton Family History
Wilton Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places so
called. Most, including those in Cumbria, Herefordshire, Norfolk, and
East and North Yorkshire, are named from an Old English wilig
‘willow’ + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. One in Somerset
and another in Wiltshire have as their first element Old English
wiell(a) ‘spring’, ‘stream’. The one that has given its name to
the county of Wiltshire is named for the Wylye river, on which
it stands (an ancient British river name, perhaps meaning
‘capricious’).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Wilton Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Wilton families
 35 - 67  12 - 34 |
 1 - 11  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Wilton families
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290 - 577 97 - 289 |
1 - 96 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Wilton families
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11 - 19 4 - 10 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Wilton Family Origin
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