The taunton Surname
taunton Name Meaning and History
English: habitational name from Taunton in Somerset, Taunton Farm
in Coulsdon, Surrey, or Tanton in North Yorkshire. The Somerset place
name was originally a combination of a Celtic river name (now the
Tone, possibly meaning ‘roaring stream’) + Old English tun
‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. The Surrey name is possibly from Old
English tan ‘branch’, ‘stalk’ + tun, while Tanton
was named in Old English as ‘settlement (tun) on the Tame’,
another Celtic river name.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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