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Weston
WestonSay it WES-tun
- Meaning
- Western settlement: Old English west, "west", and tún, "enclosure, farm, village, town" Bosworth & Toller
- Say it
- WES-tun
- Other spellings
- Westen
Weston
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Weston meaning
Weston is an international boy's name of Old English origin.
Western settlement: Old English west, "west", and tún, "enclosure, farm, village, town"
Weston is a place name found across England, from Weston-super-Mare on the Bristol Channel to dozens of villages. It joins Old English west, 'to the west', with tún, which Bosworth-Toller defines as an enclosed piece of ground, a farm or estate, a village or a town; the same word gave modern English 'town'. So a Weston was the western farm or settlement, named from a neighbouring place. Families from such places took Weston as a surname, and in the United States it became a first name. Baby-name lists give 'western town', which matches. It is said WES-tun.
Source: Bosworth & Toller, An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary (1898), online edition · entry tún (with west) · See the entry · checked 25 Oct 2026
References: Bosworth-Toller, west · Bosworth-Toller, tún
Popularity abroad
- #55 United States, boys 2025 (up 15 from 70 in 2024)
US Social Security Administration
Official birth registrations. India publishes no national name statistics.
Spellings
Weston · Westen