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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from any of various places named Roughton or Wroughton. Roughton, Lincolnshire, the most likely source of the surname according to its present-day distribution, and Roughton, Norfolk, are both named from Old English rūh ‘rough’ or Old Norse rugr ‘rye’ + tūn ‘farm’, ‘settlement’. Roughton, Shropshire is named with Old English rūh + tūn, and Wroughton, Wiltshire (the least likely source of the surname) from Worf, a Celtic river name meaning ‘winding stream’, + Old English tūn.

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