Wolverton Family History

English:: habitational name from Wolferton in Norfolk. The placename derives from the Old English personal name Wulfhere + Old English tūn ‘farmstead estate’. Reaney has suggested that the surname could also derive from any of the places called Wollerton, Wolverton, and Woolverton; yet there is very little evidence of this surname outside of East Anglia from the 15th century onward.

It therefore appears that the Norfolk place is the most likely origin of the present-day surname, perhaps sometimes a habitational name from Wollerton (Shropshire), Wolverton (Buckinghamshire, Hampshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire), and Woolverton (Somerset). The Shropshire placename derives from the Old English personal name Wulfrūn + Old English tūn ‘farmstead estate’.

The Buckinghamshire, Hampshire, Worcestershire, and Somerset placenames derive from the Old English personal name Wulfhere + Old English connective -ing- + tūn. The Warwickshire placename derives from the Old English personal name Wulfweard + Old English connective -ing- + tūn.