Denton Family History
Denton Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of numerous places so called. The vast majority including those in Cambridgeshire Cumbria Dumfries Durham Kent Lancashire Lincolnshire Norfolk Northumberland Oxfordshire Sussex and Yorkshire are named from Old English denu ‘valley’ (see Dean ) + tūn ‘enclosure settlement’. An isolated example in Northamptonshire appears in the Domesday Book as Dodintone meaning ‘enclosure settlement associated with Dodda or Dudda’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022