indicate the level to which a name has been verified.Type Surname (from location)
Usage English
Meaning & History
Habitational name from Swanton Court in Sevington, Swanton in Lydden, Swanton Farm in Littlebourne (all Kent), or any of the three places in Norfolk called Swanton (Swanton Abbott, Swanton Morley, and Swanton Novers). The placenames mean "the farmstead of the herdsmen", from Old English swana, genitive plural of swan "herdsman, peasant", and tun "farmstead, estate".