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.