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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish and English : habitational name, probably from Great and Little Ponton in Lincolnshire, named probably with an obscure Old English word pamp ‘hill’ + tūn ‘farmstead’, ‘enclosure’. The surname is now found chiefly in Scotland.

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