Submitted NameRevisions Save Gender Masculine Usage Literature Pronounced Pron. HER-tən [key] Other Forms FormsAyrton? Edit Status Status [show contributorshide contributors] Added 3/7/2008 by anonymous Edited 6/23/2016 by LMS Meaning & History Perhaps from an English place name meaning "hare town", but possibly a name invented by Emily Brontë for a character in her novel 'Wuthering Heights' (1847).