The story
- Old English · derived fromsweġen“swain, servant, retainer”
- English todaySwanton
Habitational surname from any of various places in Norfolk, from Old English sweġen (“swain, servant, retainer”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Words from the same roots
Old Englishsweġen all →
swainSwanley
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.