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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from North or South Elkington in Lincolnshire, so named from an Old English personal name (possibly Ēa(n)lāc) + Old English tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. Elkington in Northamptonshire is not the source of the family name: it did not acquire the name until 1617, before which it was Eltington or Elteton.

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