Etton

English

Etymology

From the Old English personal name Ēata + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Proper noun

Etton (countable and uncountable, plural Ettons)

1. A village and civil parish in the City of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TF1406).
2. A village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE9843).
3. A habitational surname from Old English.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Etton is the 797015^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 11 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Etton”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 539.