Manton

Meaning

Proper Noun

• outer rural locality, suburb city, Darwin in {{w Litchfield Municipality,|terr/Northern Territory|c/Australia}}.
• village/and/civil parish uauth, North Lincolnshire Lincolnshire (county) England (constituent country) .
• former mining village, suburb southeast of the town of town, Worksop Bassetlaw (district) Nottinghamshire (county) England (constituent country) .
• village Rutland (county) England (constituent country) .
• village, suburb of the town of town, Marlborough Wiltshire (county) England (constituent country) .
• census-designated place Tehama County (county) and Shasta County (county) California (state) USA (country).
• (unincorporated) community Washington County (county) Kentucky (state) USA (country).
• city Wexford County (county) Michigan (state) USA (country).
• neighborhood city, Providence Rhode Island (state) USA (country).

Origin

• Various origins:
• In general, from Old English ġemǣne ("common, shared") + tūn.
• In the case of the village in Lincolnshire, from Old English mealm ("sand, chalk") + tūn.
• The surname can also be an Anglicized form of Irish Ó Manntáin ("descendant of Manntán"), a nickname derived from a diminutive of mantach.