Foston Family History
Foston Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places such as Foston on the Wolds (East Yorkshire) Foston (Lincolnshire) Foston by Malton (North Yorkshire) Foston (Derbyshire) and Foston (Leicestershire) from the Old Norse personal name Fótr + Old English tūn ‘enclosure farmstead estate’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022