Norton Family History
Norton Surname Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the many places so called from Old English north ‘north’ + tūn ‘enclosure settlement’. In some cases it is a variant of Norrington . Irish: altered form of Naughton assimilated to the English name (see 1 above). Jewish (American): adoption of the English surname (see 1 above) in place of some similar (like-sounding) original Ashkenazic surname.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022