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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from places so named in Cheshire, East Yorkshire (now Humberside), and Shropshire. The first two are named from Old English rūh ‘rough’ + tūn ‘hill’. The last, recorded in Domesday Book as Routone, is named from Old English rūh + hyll ‘hill’ + tūn.

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