Last name: BOYNTON
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BOYNTON : This last name is indexed 49,196 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
BOYNTON : English: habitational name from a place in East Yorkshire named Boynton from the Old English personal name Bōfa + the connective particle -ing- denoting association + tūn ‘settlement’. Alternatively the name may have arisen from Boyton in Wiltshire (recorded in Domesday Book as Boientone) or from Boyington Court in Kent (recorded in 1207 as Bointon) both of which are named with the Old English personal name Boia + tūn ‘settlement’.
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