as a Last Name
- 1,363
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Taunton
Meaning & Origins
English: habitational name from Taunton in Somerset, Taunton Farm in Coulsdon, Surrey, or Tanton in North Yorkshire. The Somerset place name was originally a combination of a Celtic river name (now the Tone, possibly meaning ‘roaring stream’) + Old English tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. The Surrey name is possibly from Old English tān ‘branch’, ‘stalk’ + tūn, while Tanton was named in Old English as ‘settlement (tūn) on the Tame’, another Celtic river name.
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Nicknames & variations
Taunt, Taynton, Tainatongo, Tauntonrigby, Taunk, Taunten, Taunitas, Tounton, Taun, Taunya
Quick facts
- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 1,363
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Alabama
- has the most people named Taunton per capita
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