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Caton


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Origin Of The Surname Caton

Meaning Of The Surname Caton

From Cada’s Town

Interesting Facts About Caton

Caton is a locational surname coming from any of the places so-called or similarly spelled across Britain. Locational surnames were traditionally given to someone who had moved away to a new area, whereby they were assigned the name of their original home as a surname to differentiate them from the other townspeople. The place name itself comes from the Old English given name Cada, combined with ‘tun’ meaning town to mean ‘Cada’s Town’. Towns with this name would have developed from an original small settlement owned by a man named Cada.

Caton Statistics

Caton is the number 1301 ranked surname in the United Kingdom. According to our statistics around 7,961 share the surname Caton in the UK.

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