Wyton

English

Etymology

From Old English wīċ (“village”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Proper noun

Wyton (countable and uncountable, plural Wytons)

1. (uncountable) A placename:
   1. A village in Houghton and Wyton parish, Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL2772).
   2. A hamlet in Bilton parish, East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref TA1733).
2. (countable) A habitational surname from Old English.

Derived terms

• Houghton and Wyton

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Wyton is the 19989^th most common surname in England, belonging to 227 individuals.

References

• Survey of English Place-Names

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Wyton”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
• Forebears