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Meaning & Origins
Transferred use of the surname, in origin a local name from the numerous places so called, a large number of which get their name from Old English mylentūn ‘settlement with a mill’. Others were originally named as ‘the middle settlement (of three)’, from Old English middel ‘middle’ + tūn ‘settlement’. The surname is most famous as that of the poet John Milton (1608–74), and the given name is sometimes bestowed in his honour. Its most illustrious bearer in recent times has been the economist Milton Friedman (1912–2006).
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French (Brittany, Touraine): from French levant ‘east’, a topographic name for someone who lived in the eastern part of a town or settlement, or outside it to the east; or a regional name for someone who had migrated westward (and so was regarded as coming from the east). It may also denote someone from the Levant, the eastern Mediterranean (see Leventis).
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Nicknames & variations
Milthon, Miltonia, Miltina, Miltone, Milten, Miltan, Miltion, Miltonya, Miltin, Miltona
Levasseur, Levan, Levario, Levandowski, Levalley, Leva, Levandoski, Levay, Levangie, Levar
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