Blyton
English
Etymology
From the Old Norse personal name Blígr + Old English tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈblaɪtən/
Proper noun
Blyton (countable and uncountable, plural Blytons)
- A village and civil parish in West Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref SK8594). [1]
- A habitational surname.
Derived terms
Statistics
- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Blyton is the 27895th most common surname in England, belonging to 137 individuals.
References
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Blyton”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 176.
- Forebears
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