Family name origins & meanings
- English : habitational name from places so called in Cambridgeshire and Leicestershire, or from Harleston in Suffolk or Harlestone in Northamptonshire. The first was named in Old English possibly with an unattested personal name Herel + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’; the second is from hār ‘gray’ (or possibly ‘boundary’) + stān ‘stone’. The two last were both named with the Old English personal name Heoruwulf (or Herewulf) + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’.