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Surname Etymology and Meaning of ACTON

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(origin: Saxon. Local) The oak-town or oak-hill--the name of a town in Middlesex, England, whence the name is derived.

Source: An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names With an Essay on their Derivation and Import (1857).

English: habitational name from any of several places, especially in Shropshire and adjacent counties, named Acton. Generally, these are from Old English ac ‘oak’ + tun ‘settlement’.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names (2003)