as a Last Name
- 2,982
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Dunton
Meaning & Origins
English: habitational name from any of various places called Dunton. Most (for example those in Bedfordshire, Essex, Leicestershire, Norfolk, and Warwickshire) are named from Old English dūn ‘hill’ (see Down 1) + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. One in Buckinghamshire probably has as its first element the Old English personal name Dudda (see Dodd).
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 2,982
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Maine
- has the most people named Dunton per capita
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