First name origin & meaning: Old English: Ella's town First name variations: Elten, Alton, Eldon, Ellton, Elthon Last name origin & meaning: English: habitational name from any of the various places so
called. For the most part they derive from the Old English personal
name Ella or Elli (see Ellington) + Old English
tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. One in Berkshire, however,
gets its first element from the Old English female personal name
Æ{dh}elflǣd (composed of the elements æ{dh}el
‘noble’ + flǣd ‘beauty’). One in Cambridgeshire has its
first element from the personal name Æ{dh}elhēah
(composed of the elements æ{dh}el ‘noble’ + hēah
‘high’). The place of this name in County Durham probably gets its
first element from Old English ǣl ‘eel’. This name appears in the following lists:
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