# Manton

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #70,058

## Definitions
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11. A habitational surname.

## Etymology
Various origins:
* In general, from Old English ġemǣne (“common, shared”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement”).
* In the case of the village in Lincolnshire, from Old English mealm (“sand, chalk”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement”).
* The surname can also be an Anglicized form of Irish Ó Manntáin (“descendant of Manntán”), a nickname derived from a diminutive of mantach (“toothless”).

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/manton