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.