Pilton Family History
Pilton Name Meaning
from any of several places called Pilton (Somerset Rutland Devon Northants). The place-names in Somerset Rutland and Devon derive from Old English pyll ‘tidal creek’ + tūn ‘farmstead estate’. The Northants place-name derives from an Old English personal name *Pīleca + Old English tūn.
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016