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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name, possibly from Talton in Worcestershire, named in Old English as ‘settlement (tūn) associated with Tǣtel’, but more likely from Tallington in Lincolnshire, ‘settlement associated with Talla’, an unattested Old English personal name.

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