Etton
English
Etymology
From the Old English personal name Ēata + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Proper noun
Etton (countable and uncountable, plural Ettons)
- A village and civil parish in the City of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TF1406).
- A village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE9843).
- A habitational surname, from Old English.
Statistics
- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Etton is the 797015th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 11 individuals.
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Etton”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN