Boy name origins & meanings
- Latin : Laurel crown
Boy name variations
Family name origins & meanings
- English : habitational name, common in Lancashire and Yorkshire, from Buglawton or Church Lawton in Cheshire, or Lawton in Herefordshire, named in Old English as ‘settlement on or near a hill’, or ‘settlement by a burial mound’, from hlāw ‘hill’, ‘burial mound’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.
- English : variant spelling of Laughton.
