Family name origins & meanings
- English : topographic name for someone living to the north of a main settlement, Middle English north in toun, or a habitational name from any of the places named with this phrase (Old English norð in tūne), as for example Norrington in Wiltshire.
- English : variant of Northampton, a habitational name from the city of this name, which was named with Old English norð ‘north’ + hām + tūn ‘homestead’, ‘home farm’.
