Swinton Family History
Swinton Name Meaning
English (Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire) and Scottish (Fife): habitational name from any of various places called Swinton for example in Berwickshire North Yorkshire Yorkshire and Lancashire. The Lancashire North Yorkshire and Yorkshire placenames derive from Old English swīn ‘swine pig’ + tūn ‘farmstead estate’ while the Berwickshire placename derives from the Old Norse personal name Sveinn + Old English tūn.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022