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Updated May 24, 2023

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Old English : One from the meadow farm
  • English : Meadow, farm

How Popular Is The Name Layton

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from any of various places so called, for example in Lancashire (near Blackpool) and in North Yorkshire. The former was named in Old English as ‘settlement by the watercourse’, from Old English lād ‘watercourse’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’; the latter as ‘leek enclosure’ or ‘herb garden’, from lēac ‘leek’ + tūn. Compare Leighton.

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