Meaning and Origin of: Layton

Layton has Old English origins and means "One from the meadow farm."

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Old English : One from the meadow farm
  • English : Meadow, farm

Boy name variations

Leighton
Lay
Leigh
Layland
Laytan
Leighten
Leightun
Laeton
Laiton
Laeeton
Leiton
Leyton

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from any of various places so called, for example in Lancashire (near Blackpool) and in North Yorkshire. The former was named in Old English as ‘settlement by the watercourse’, from Old English lād ‘watercourse’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’; the latter as ‘leek enclosure’ or ‘herb garden’, from lēac ‘leek’ + tūn. Compare Leighton.