Marton

1. English: habitational name from any of several places so called, principally in Lincolnshire, Warwickshire, and North Yorkshire, named in Old English as ‘settlement by a lake’ (from mere or mær ‘pool’, ‘lake’ + tūn ‘settlement’) or as ‘settlement by a boundary’ (from (ge)mære ‘boundary’ + tūn ‘settlement’). Compare Martin 2.

2. Hungarian (Márton): from the Hungarian personal name Márton (see Martin 1).

GIVEN NAMES: Hungarian 8%. Laszlo (3), Antal (2), Arpad (2), Geza (2), Andras, Bela, Denes, Endre, Gaza, Imre, Istvan, Janos.

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