Wyton
English
Etymology
From Old English wīċ (“village”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Proper noun
Wyton (countable and uncountable, plural Wytons)
- (uncountable) A placename:
- A village in Houghton and Wyton parish, Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL2772).
- A hamlet in Bilton parish, East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref TA1733).
- (countable) A habitational surname from Old English.
Statistics
- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Wyton is the 19989th most common surname in England, belonging to 227 individuals.
Derived terms
- Houghton and Wyton
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Wyton”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
- Forebears
References
- Survey of English Place-Names