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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from a place called Watton, as for example one in Norfolk, named from the Old English personal name Wada + tūn ‘settlement’, or another, in East Yorkshire, which takes its name from Old English wǣt ‘wet’ + dūn ‘hill’.

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