Frequency: (137)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Variant spelling of Wheelton, an English habitational name from Wheelton in Lancashire or possibly Whilton in Northamptonshire, both named with Old English hwēol ‘wheel’ (perhaps indicating a waterwheel or similar feature) + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. The spelling Whealton does not appear in current English records.
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