American Family Name Origins:
Painton
Frequency: (162)
(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 Paignton in Devon, named with the Old English personal name Pǣga (genitive Pǣgan) + tūn ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’.
GIVEN NAMES: French 4%. Monique, Patrice.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
