Last name: BOUGHTON

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BOUGHTON : This last name is indexed 32,451 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

BOUGHTON : English: habitational name from any of numerous places so named. Those in Cambridgeshire (formerly Huntingdonshire) Lincolnshire Norfolk Northamptonshire and Nottinghamshire are named from Old English bucc ‘goat’ or the Old English byname Bucca with the same meaning (see Buck 1) + Old English tūn ‘enclosure settlement’; those in Cheshire and Kent are named with Old English bōc ‘beech’ + tūn.

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