Belton Family History
Belton Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places called Belton for example in Leicestershire Lincolnshire and Suffolk. The first element bel is of uncertain origin; the second is Old English tūn ‘enclosure settlement’. English: occasionally a variant of Bilton a habitational name from Bilton in Warwickshire. Irish: from the Norman name Weldon relatively common in Ireland which has sometimes been Gaelicized as de Bhéalatún and re-Anglicized as Veldon and Belton.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022