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The horton Surname

horton Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from any of the various places so called. The majority, with examples in at least fourteen counties, are named from Old English horh ‘mud’, ‘slime’ or horn ‘dirt’ + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. One in southern Gloucestershire, however, is named from Old English heorot ‘hart’ + dun ‘hill’.

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

Distribution of horton Families in the US in 1920
Number of horton families
 684-1365
 229-683		 1-228
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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