The gayton Surname

gayton Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from any of several places in Merseyside, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, and Staffordshire called Gayton, or from Gayton le Marsh or Gayton le Wold in Lincolnshire. The Northamptonshire and Staffordshire place names are from an Old English personal name G?ga + tun ‘farmstead’; the others are from Old Norse geit ‘goat’ + tún ‘farmstead’.
French: diminutive of Gayte, a southern variant of guette ‘watch’, and hence an occupational name for a watchman.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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gayton Family Facts

Distribution of gayton Families in the US in 1920

Number of gayton families

17-31

6-16

1-5

Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Gaydons of Barnstable	Cheryl Gaydon	1
Gayton - Canada	Kristen	0
Gayton family name	Sarah Gayton	11
Gayton Family Name	hicard	55
Frances B Gayton	Carol Hughes	0
re: Memramcook	michael gayton	0
Gaytons in Boston, 1890's	linconefrey	1
Gaytons of New Brunswick - harken to my voice	Falcon	2
Gayton: Edmund Patrick	whgayton	6
Charles Gayton	robertgayton	0

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