Last name: SHELTON
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Last name frequency
SHELTON : This last name is indexed 153,370 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
SHELTON : English (Nottinghamshire): habitational name primarily from Shelton (Nottinghamshire) but also from Shelton (Bedfordshire Norfolk Shropshire and Staffordshire). The placenames all derive from Old English scelf ‘rock ledge shelf’ + tūn ‘farmstead estate’.
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