Abston
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Frequency: (662)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Of uncertain origin; perhaps from an English place name, but not now recorded in England as a surname. One possibility is Abson near Bristol, earlier Abston; another is Adstone in Northamptonshire, which is named from an Old English personal name Ættīn + Old English tūn ‘settlement’.
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