Boy name origins & meanings
- Old English : Valley
- German : Valley dweller
- English : From the valley
Boy name variations
Family name origins & meanings
- English : habitational name from any of the various places, for example in Cumbria, County Durham, Lancashire, Northumberland, and Yorkshire, named Dalton, from Old English dæl ‘valley’ (see Dale) + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.
- English and Irish (of Norman origin) : habitational name for someone from Autun (d’Autun) in Seine-et-Loire, France. The place name derives from the Latin form Augustodunum, a compound of the imperial name Augustus + the Gaulish element dūn ‘hill’, ‘fort’.
