Given name & surname
Ditton
“ditch, trench, moat”
Ditton is a surname from Old English.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Ditton goes back to Old English dīċ, meaning “ditch, trench, moat.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Ditton’s family of names
In English usage, Ditton as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with DEIGHTON.
The ring: across languages.
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Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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