Ponton Family History
Ponton Name Meaning
Scottish and English: habitational name probably from Great and Little Ponton in Lincolnshire perhaps named from an obscure Old English word pamp ‘hill’ or panne ‘pan’ (in a transferred topographic sense ‘depression hollow’) + tūn ‘farmstead’ ‘enclosure’. English: occasionally a variant of Ponting .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022