Last name: GORTON
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Last name frequency
GORTON : This last name is indexed 54,178 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
GORTON : English (Lancashire): habitational name from a place in Lancashire so named from Old English gor ‘dirt mud’ + tūn ‘enclosure settlement’.
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