English Explanatory Dictionary

Wrighton

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname from Old English.

Word forms

Wrighton Wrightons

Etymology

Perhaps a habitational surname from Old English hryċġ (“ridge”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”), or from the village of Reighton, in North Yorkshire.

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