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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish : unexplained.
  • English : habitational name from a place in Gloucestershire named Bitton. The place takes its name from the Boyd river, a Celtic river name of uncertain origin + Old English tūn ‘settlement’, ‘farmstead’.

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