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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from any of the numerous places named Ditton, for example in Cheshire, Kent, Cambridgeshire, and Surrey, from Old English dīc ‘ditch’, ‘dike’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.
  • English : habitational name from Ditton Priors in Shropshire, recorded in Domesday Book as Dodintone ‘settlement (Old English tūn) associated with a man called Dod(d)a or Dud(d)a’.

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