Oulton Family History

English: habitational name from any of several places called Oulton, especially the one in Little Budworth, Cheshire, which is recorded as Aldeton in 1259. This placename derives from Old English (æt) aldan tūn ‘(at) the old farmstead’ or may derive from the Old English personal name Alda (perhaps in the genitive Aldan or with Old English connective -ing-) + tūn ‘farmstead, settlement’.

There are other places called Oulton in Yorkshire, Cumbria, Staffordshire, Norfolk, and Suffolk, all with different etymological origins and most of which gave rise to the surname Oulton and its variants such as Olton and Outen.