English (mainly Lancashire): habitational name from any of the
various places named Hatton, from Old English h?ð
‘heathland’, ‘heather’ (see Heath) + tun ‘enclosure’,
‘settlement’. Examples of the place name are found in Cheshire,
Derbyshire, Lincolnshire, West London, Shropshire, Staffordshire, and
Warwickshire.French: from the Old French oblique case of the
Germanic personal name Hado, Hatto, a short form of
various compound names beginning with hadu ‘strife’.Irish
(Ulster) and Scottish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac
Giolla Chatáin (Irish), Mac Gille Chatain (Scottish)
(see McHatton).Scottish: habitational name, perhaps
in part of English origin (see 1), but perhaps also from a Scottish
place name. GFB. PWH: OSGAZ has 16 places in Scotland, mainly
Grampian and Tayside called Hatton. Same ety.
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