First name origin & meaning: Old English: Search First name variations: Hunter, Huntley, Hunta, Hunt Last name origins & meanings:
- English: habitational name from any of several places so called,
named with the genitive plural huntena of Old English
hunta ‘hunter’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’ or
dūn ‘hill’ (the forms in -ton and -don having
become inextricably confused). A number of bearers of this name may
well derive it from Huntingdon, now in Cambridgeshire (formerly the
county seat of the old county of Huntingdonshire), which is named from
the genitive case of Old English hunta ‘huntsman’, perhaps used
as a personal name, + dūn ‘hill’.
- A prominent American family of this name were founded by Simon
Huntington, who himself never saw the New World, for he died in 1633
on the voyage to Boston, where his widow settled with her
children. Their descendants include Jabez Huntington (1719–86), a
wealthy West Indies trader, and Samuel Huntington (1731–96), who was
one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Collis Potter
Huntington (1821–1900) was an American railway magnate. Beginning
with little education or money, he made a huge fortune, some of which
he left to his nephew, Henry Huntington (1850–1927), who used the
money to establish the Huntington library and art gallery in CA.
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