Duston Family History

English:: habitational name for someone from Duston in Northamptonshire named in Old English with dus ‘mound’ or dūst ‘dust’ + tūn ‘settlement farmstead’. Perhaps a shortened form of Dustinton from Distington in Cumberland recorded as Distingtona and Dustinton in the early 13th century named from an obscure first element (possibly an Old English personal name) + tūn ‘settlement farmstead.

Shortened variant of Dunstan. From the Anglo-Norman, Anglo-Scandinavian, and Middle English personal name Thurstan from Old Norse Thórsteinn composed of the name of the god Thórr (see Thor) + steinn ‘stone rock’.

Hence meaning ‘altar of Thor’ or perhaps ‘hammer of Thor’.