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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : variant of Culliton.
  • Possibly English, a habitational name from any of several places in Devon variously called Colliton, Colyton, or Collaton. Colliton and Collaton are named with the Old English personal name Cola (see Cole 2) + tūn ‘settlement’; Colyton is ‘settlement on the Coly river’, a Celtic river name.

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