The morton Surname
morton Name Meaning and History
- English and Scottish: habitational name from any of the many places called Mor(e)ton, named in Old English as ‘settlement (tun) by or on a marsh or moor (mor)’.
- Swedish: variant of Martin.
- French: contracted form of Moreton 2.
- Americanized form of one or more like-sounding Jewish surnames or of various other non-English names bearing some kind of similarity to it.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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