Knutton

English

Alternative forms

• (surname): Nutton

Etymology

Probably from Old English cnotta (“knot hillock”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Proper noun

Knutton (countable and uncountable, plural Knuttons)

1. A village in Newcastle-under-Lyme borough, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SJ8346).
2. A habitational surname from Old English.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Knutton is the 23763^rd most common surname in England, belonging to 175 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Knutton”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 326.
• Forebears