Ecton Family History
Ecton Name Meaning
English (Leicestershire): variant of Eckton a habitational name from Eckton a lost place in Otley (Yorkshire) or from either of two places called Ecton in Northamptonshire and Staffordshire so named from the Old English personal name Ecca + tūn ‘settlement enclosure’. This form of the surname has now died out in Britain.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022