Slayton Family History

English: perhaps a variant of Leighton (compare Layton) with the addition of initial S-. Alternatively perhaps a variant of Sladen or of Sleightholme principally a habitational name from Sleightholme Dale in Kirkbymoorside but perhaps occasionally from Sleightholme in Bowes or the lost Sleightholme in Lythe.

The placenames derive from Old Norse sléttr ‘smooth level’ + holmr ‘small island water meadow’. This surname is now very rare in Britain.

Compare Slaydon.