First name origins & meanings:
- Old English: Valley
- German: Valley dweller
- English: From the valley
First name variations: Dal, Dallan, Dallen, Dallin, Dallon, Daley, Dalibor, Daly, Dayle, Dawley, Dale, Dalaton, Dalltan, Dallten, Dalltin, Dallton, Dalltyn, Dalt, Daltan, Dalten, Daltin, Daltyn, Delton Last name origins & meanings:
- English: habitational name from any of the various places, for
example in Cumbria, County Durham, Lancashire, Northumberland, and
Yorkshire, named Dalton, from Old English dæl ‘valley’ (see
Dale) + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.
- English
and Irish (of Norman origin): habitational name for someone from Autun
(d’Autun) in Seine-et-Loire, France. The place name derives
from the Latin form Augustodunum, a compound of the imperial
name Augustus + the Gaulish element dūn ‘hill’,
‘fort’.
Famous people with this last name:
Timothy Dalton Famous people who gave their babies this name:
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