Thornton

Boy name variations

Family name origins & meanings

• English and Scottish : habitational name from any of the numerous places throughout England and Scotland so called, from Old English þorn ‘thorn bush’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.
• Irish : Anglicized (translated) form of Gaelic Mac Sceacháin ‘son of Sceachán’ (see Skehan).
• Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Draighneáin ‘descendant of Draighneán’ (see Drennan).
• Irish : possibly a translated form of Gaelic Ó Muineacháin (see Monahan).