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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from any of various places, in Cumbria, Nottinghamshire, Shropshire, East Yorkshire, and elsewhere, so called from Old English hēg ‘hay’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’.

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