Family name origins & meanings
- English : habitational name from Tarleton in Lancashire, near Croston, named with the Old Norse personal name þóraldr (composed of the elements þórr, name of the Norse god of thunder (see Thor) + valdr ‘rule’) + Old English tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.
- English : habitational name from Tarlton in Gloucestershire, recorded in Domesday Book as Torentune and in 1204 as Torleton, probably from Old English thorn ‘thorn tree’ + lēah ‘(forest) clearing’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.