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Origin Of The Surname Compton
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Meaning Of The Surname Compton
From the Town in the Narrow Dale
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Interesting
Facts About
Compton
Compton 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 ‘comb’ meaning a narrow area between two hills, combined with ‘tun’ meaning settlement. |
Compton Statistics
Compton is the number 1286 ranked surname in the United Kingdom.
According to our statistics around 7,999 share the surname Compton in the UK.
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