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Ashton is an Old English place name, meaning "Ash Town" ("Ash" as in the type of tree). It will have become a surname through the people who lived there ("John of Ashton" would eventually become "John Ashton"), and then will have become a first name from there, possibly because a woman gave her son her maiden surname as a first name. It's impossible to know where or when this happened first, though. For more information about Ashton, click the hyperlink.

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