First name origin & meaning: Old English: Hill settlement First name variations: Hylton, Hillton Last name origins & meanings:
- English (Lancashire) and Scottish: habitational name from any
of various places so called. Most, including those in Cambridgeshire
(formerly Huntingdonshire), Cleveland, Derbyshire, and Shropshire, get
the name from Old English hyll ‘hill’ + tūn
‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. Others, including those in Cumbria and
Dorsetshire, have early forms in Hel- and probably have as
their first element Old English hielde ‘slope’ or possibly
helde ‘tansy’.
- English: some early examples such as Ralph
filius Hilton (Yorkshire 1219) point to occasional derivation from a
personal name, possibly a Norman name Hildun, composed of the
Germanic elements hild ‘strife’, ‘battle’ + hūn ‘bear
cub’. The English surname is present in Ireland (mostly taken to
Ulster in the early 17th century, though recorded earlier in
Dublin).
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