as a Last Name
- 490
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Lefton
Meaning & Origins
English: 1. habitational name, perhaps from Lepton in West Yorkshire, which is named from Old English hlēp ‘leap’ (hence ‘cliff’, ‘steep slope’) + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. 2. probably a variant of Leverton.
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Quick facts
- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 490
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Missouri
- has the most people named Lefton per capita
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