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From Old English ea (river) + tun (homestead). As a surname, it is given to someone living near a river or on an island, or any of the various places in England called "Eaton". See also Eton, which is a doublet.

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Eaton (countable and uncountable, plural Eatons)

  1. A surname
  2. A placename
    1. A number of places in England:
      1. A village in Cheshire East district, Cheshire.
      2. A former civil parish containing Eaton Hall in Cheshire West and Chester borough, Cheshire, now part of Eaton and Eccleston civil parish (OS grid ref SJ4160).
      3. A village in Rushton parish, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire (OS grid ref SJ5763).
      4. A village and civil parish in Melton borough, Leicestershire (OS grid ref SK7929).
      5. A village in Norfolk, a suburb of Norwich, England.
      6. A village and civil parish (served by Gamston with West Drayton and Eaton Parish Council) in Bassetlaw district, Nottinghamshire (OS grid ref SK7178).
      7. A hamlet in Appleton-with-Eaton parish, Vale of White Horse district, Oxfordshire (OS grid ref SP4403).
      8. A small village in Eaton-under-Heywood parish, Shropshire (OS grid ref SO4990). [1]
    2. A place in Australia
      1. A suburb of Bunbury, Western Australia.
      2. A suburb of Darwin, Northern Territory; named for Charles Eaton, a RAAF officer.
    3. A locality in Canada
      1. Former name of Eatonia. A town in Chesterfield, Saskatchewan; named in honour of Timothy Eaton, founder of the Eaton's department store chain and mail-order catalogue service.
    4. A locality in the United States:
      1. A town in Indiana.
      2. A town in New Hampshire; named for Theophilus Eaton, the first governor of New Haven Colony.
      3. A town in New York; named for William Eaton.
      4. A city, the county seat of Preble County, Ohio; named for William Eaton, a commander in the First Barbary War.
      5. A statutory town in Oklahoma.
      6. A town in Brown County, Wisconsin.
      7. A town in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin.
      8. A town in Clark County, Wisconsin.
  3. (countable) An English habitational surname from Old English.

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