First name origins & meanings:
- Old English: One from the meadow farm
- English: Meadow, farm
First name variations: Lay, Leigh, Layland, Layton, Laytan, Layton, Leighten, Leightun, Laeton, Laiton, Laeeton, Leiton, Leyton
Last name origin & meaning:
English: habitational name from any of various places so called.
Most, as for example those in Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire,
Lancashire, and Shropshire, are named with Old English lēac
‘leek’ + tūn ‘settlement’. Compare Layton.
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