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DALTON
GENDER: Masculine
USAGE: English
PRONOUNCED: DAWL-tən   [key]
Meaning & History
From an English surname which was originally from a place name meaning "valley town" in Old English. A notable bearer of the surname was John Dalton (1766-1844), the English chemist and physicist who theorized about the existence of atoms.
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