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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (chiefly Yorkshire) : habitational name from any of several places in Yorkshire named Deighton, from Old English dīc ‘ditch’, ‘dike’ + tūn ‘settlement’, ‘enclosure’. See also Ditton.

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