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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name, perhaps from Lepton in West Yorkshire, which is named from Old English hlēp ‘leap’ (hence ‘cliff’, ‘steep slope’) + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.
  • English : probably a variant of Leverton.

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