Family name origins & meanings
- Probably English : habitational name from a place in Greater Manchester (formerly in Lancashire), so named from Old English ēg ‘well-watered land’ + tūn ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’ + feld ‘open country’. However, there are no records of this as a surname in the British Isles today, and it may have been adopted by settlers on arrival in the U.S. This name is concentrated in the GA and FL.