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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name, probably from a place in Norfolk named Booton, from an Old English personal name (Bōta or ) + tūn ‘settlement’. The present-day concentration of the surname is in the West Midlands and Wales.

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