Kenton Family History

English: habitational name from any of various places so named for example in Devon, Greater London (formerly Middlesex), Northumberland and Suffolk. All have as the second element Old English tūn ‘farmstead, settlement’.

The first element of the place in Devon is a pre-English river name; the place in London is named with the Old English personal name Cēna; the place in Northumberland derives from Old English cyne ‘kingly, royal’ or cyng ‘king’ + tūn; and the place in Suffolk is named either with Cēna or more probably with Old English cyne- ‘royal’.