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Fenton boy

First name origin & meaning:

English: From the settlement of the town on the moor

First name variations: Fen, Fennie, Fenny, Fentan, Fenten, Fentin, Fentun, Fentyn, Fintan, Finton

Last name origins & meanings:

  1. English: habitational name from any of various places, in Lincolnshire, Northumberland, Staffordshire, and South Yorkshire, so called from Old English fenn ‘marsh’, ‘fen’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’
  2. Irish: English surname adopted by bearers of Gaelic Ó Fionnachta (see Finnerty) or Ó Fiachna ‘descendant of Fiachna’, an old personal name Anglicized as Feighney and sometimes mistranslated as Hunt (see Fee).
  3. Jewish (Ashkenazic): Americanized form of various like-sounding names, for example Finkelstein (see Funke).

This name appears in the following lists: Names from Shakespeare, Poets

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