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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Old English : Town with many oaks

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from any of several places, especially in Shropshire and adjacent counties, named Acton. Generally, these are from Old English āc ‘oak’ + tūn ‘settlement’.

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