Swanton Family History
Swanton Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Swanton Court in Sevington Swanton in Lydden Swanton Farm in Littlebourne (all Kent) or any of the three places in Norfolk called Swanton (Swanton Abbott Swanton Morley and Swanton Novers). The placenames mean ‘the farmstead of the herdsmen’ from Old English swāna genitive plural of swān ‘herdsman peasant’ + tūn ‘farmstead estate’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022