Carlton

(male) Transferred use of the surname, a local name from any of various places (in Beds., Cambs., Co. Durham, Leics., Lincs., Northants, Notts., Suffolk, and Yorks.) named with Old English carl ‘(free) peasant’ + tūn ‘settlement’, i.e. ‘settlement of the free peasants’. This is the same name as Charlton, Ch- representing the southern (Anglo-Saxon) pronunciation, while C- represents the northern (Anglo-Scandinavian) version.