Family name origins & meanings
- Irish : reduced form of McNaughton.
- English : habitational name from a place in Suffolk, named in Old English with nafola ‘navel’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’, i.e. ‘settlement in the navel or depression’.
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