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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English and Scottish : habitational name from Salton in North Yorkshire, England, or Saltoun in East Lothian, Scotland. The first is named from Old English salh ‘(sallow) willow’ + tūn ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’.

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