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Easton

Boy · Old English

Easton

Say it: EE-stun

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Meaning

From an English surname taken from place names, from Old English east 'east' and tun 'settlement'.

Certainscholars agree on this meaning.

A 21st-century American surname name.

Its wave through time

Popular now

In the United States

0123418801900192019401960198020002020Peak 2018per 1,000 babies of that sex
  • 61,163 babies given this name since 1907
  • At its height in 2018, about 1 in 332 boys
  • 4,653 babies in 2020

Through the ages

  1. The Modern Age1880 to today

Used by

American

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Where this comes from

  • United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
  • United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source

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