Family name origins & meanings
- English (Midlands) : apparently a habitational name from South Heighton in East Sussex, named from Old English hēah ‘high’ + tūn ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’. However, the high concentration of the modern name in the Midland region suggests that in many cases it is likely to be a variant of Hayton, specifically from the places so named in Nottinghamshire and East Yorkshire.