Frequency: (9618)
(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 any of the extremely numerous places named with Old English wudu ‘wood’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’, such as Wootton in Northamptonshire or Oxfordshire, Wootton Bassett in Wiltshire, Wotton in Surrey, and Wotton under Edge in Gloucestershire.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
