Last name: RENTON
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RENTON : This last name is indexed 22,216 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
RENTON : Scottish: habitational name from Renton in Coldingham (Berwickshire) probably from the Old English personal name Regna (a short form of various compound personal names with the first element regen ‘govern’) + Old English connective -ing- + tūn ‘farmstead estate’.
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