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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Spanish (Lestón) : habitational name from any of four places called Lestó in A Coruña province, Galacia.
  • English : unexplained; perhaps a habitational name from Leiston in Suffolk, so named from Old English lēg ‘beacon fire’ + tūn ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’.

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