habitational name from any of the various places
called Catton, for example in Derbyshire, Norfolk, and North
Yorkshire, all apparently from an Old English byname Catta
meaning ‘cat’ or Old Norse Káti meaning ‘boy’ + Old English
tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.from a pet form of
Catherine.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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