as a Last Name
- 3,025
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Boughton
Meaning & Origins
English: habitational name from any of the numerous places so named. Those in Cambridgeshire (formerly Huntingdonshire), Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, and Nottinghamshire are named from the Old English byname Bucca (see Buck 1) + Old English tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’; those in Cheshire and Kent are named with Old English bōc ‘beech’ + tūn.
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 3,025
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Connecticut
- has the most people named Boughton per capita
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