Scottish: habitational name from Ayton in Berwickshire, ‘the
settlement on the Eye river’.English: habitational name
from a group of places in North Yorkshire called Ayton, from Old
English ea ‘river’ + tun ‘farmstead’, ‘estate’, or
from Eyton in Shropshire, named with Old English eg ‘island’
+ tun ‘settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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