Fenton

Boy name variations

Family name origins & meanings

• English : habitational name from any of various places, in Lincolnshire, Northumberland, Staffordshire, and South Yorkshire, so called from Old English fenn ‘marsh’, ‘fen’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’
• Irish : English surname adopted by bearers of Gaelic Ó Fionnachta (see Finnerty) or Ó Fiachna ‘descendant of Fiachna’, an old personal name Anglicized as Feighney and sometimes mistranslated as Hunt (see Fee).
• Jewish (Ashkenazic) : Americanized form of various like-sounding names, for example Finkelstein (see Funke).