Frequency: (335)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
English: habitational name from Eggleton in Herefordshire or Egleton in Rutland, both named in Old English as ‘settlement associated with Ecgwulf or Ecgel’.
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