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Origin Of The Surname Hinton
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Meaning Of The Surname Hinton
From the High Town
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Interesting
Facts About
Hinton
Hinton 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 ‘hean’ meaning raised or high, combined with tun to mean ‘the high town’. Places with this name may have been raised by a hill. |
Hinton Statistics
Hinton is the number 1287 ranked surname in the United Kingdom.
According to our statistics around 7,996 share the surname Hinton in the UK.
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