Last name origins & meanings:
- Scottish: habitational name from Ayton in Berwickshire, ‘the
settlement on the Eye river’.
- English: habitational name
from a group of places in North Yorkshire called Ayton, from Old
English ēa ‘river’ + tūn ‘farmstead’, ‘estate’, or
from Eyton in Shropshire, named with Old English ēg ‘island’
+ tūn ‘settlement’.
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