Last name: COMPTON
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COMPTON : This last name is indexed 134,564 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
COMPTON : English: habitational name from any of numerous places throughout England (but especially in the southwest) named Compton from Old English cumb ‘short straight valley’ + tūn ‘enclosure settlement’.
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