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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish and English : habitational name from any of various places, notably Smeaton near Edinburgh, Great, Little, and Kirk Smeaton in North Yorkshire, or Smeeton in Leicestershire, all named with Old English Smiðatūn ‘settlement (Old English tūn) of the smiths’.

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