The barton Surname
barton Name Meaning and History
- English: habitational name from any of the numerous places named with Old English bere or bær ‘barley’ + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’, i.e. an outlying grange. Compare Barwick.
- German and central European (e.g. Czech and Slovak Barton): from a pet form of the personal name Bartolomaeus (see Bartholomew).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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