# Pelton

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #70,157

## Definitions
1. A village and civil parish in County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ2553).
2. A locality in the Cessnock council area, eastern New South Wales, Australia.
3. A habitational surname from Old English.

## Etymology
From the Old English personal name *Peola + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

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