Surname · also Old Norse
Cawston
“enclosure; settlement, town”
Cawston is a surname, probably from Old Norse, ultimately from Old English.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Cawston probably goes back to Old English tūn, meaning “enclosure; settlement, town.”
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Where it comes from
Cawston probably comes from Old Norse, and ultimately from Old English.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
Probably from Old English tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Cawston’s family of names
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Similar names
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