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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from a place called Lutton in Northamptonshire named in Old English as Ludingtūn (see Lutton) or from Luddington in Lincolnshire, recorded in Domesday Book as Ludintone, both named from the Old English personal name Luda + -ing- denoting association with + tūn ‘estate’, ‘settlement’.

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