Last name: LISTON

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All you have to know about the last name LISTON

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LISTON : This last name is indexed 25,748 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

LISTON : 1: English: habitational name from a place in Essex so named from the Old English personal name Lissa (probably a pet form of Lēofsige from lēof ‘dear beloved’ + sige ‘victory’) + tūn ‘enclosure settlement’.2: Scottish: habitational name from any of the places in West Lothian and Midlothian which probably have the same origin as in 1 above. This surname is also found in Ireland.3: Irish: Anglo-Norman name which has been in Limerick since the 13th century originally de Lexinton so presumably a habitational name from Lexington in Essex.

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