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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish : habitational name from a place near Selkirk, also spelled Synton. In the 12th and 13th centuries it is recorded several times as Sintun, from an unexplained first element + Old English tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. In the British Isles, the surname is now found mainly in northern Ireland.

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