Middleton

in South Carolina

There are 2,119 people with the last name "Middleton" in South Carolina.

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Middleton 204
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  1. is 200th most common Mccoy
  2. is 201st most common Austin
  3. is 202nd most common Walters
  4. is 203rd most common Hopkins
  5. is 204th most common Middleton
  6. is 205th most common Moody
  7. is 206th most common Reeves
  8. is 207th most common Fuller
  9. is 208th most common Hart


Meaning & History

English and Scottish: habitational name from any of the places so called. In over thirty instances from many different areas, the name is from Old English midel ‘middle’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. However, Middleton on the Hill near Leominster in Herefordshire appears in Domesday Book as Miceltune, the first element clearly being Old English micel ‘large’, ‘great’. Middleton Baggot and Middleton Priors in Shropshire have early spellings that suggest gemȳðhyll (from gemȳð ‘confluence’ + hyll ‘hill’) + tūn as the origin.

FOREBEARS A Scottish family of this name derives it from lands at Middleto(u)n near Kincardine. The Scottish physician Peter Middleton practiced in New York City after 1752 and was one of the founders of the medical school at King's College (now Columbia University) in 1767. One of the earliest of the Charleston, SC, Middleton family of prominent legislators was Arthur Middleton, born in Charleston in 1681.


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