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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (Northumberland) : habitational name from a place in Northumbria, so called from a British river name akin to Welsh arian ‘silvery’, ‘bright’ + Old English tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.

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