Compton surname meaning

Compton is an English habitational surname from any of the numerous places named Compton, especially in southwestern England. The place-name joins Old English cumb, “short straight valley,” with tūn, “enclosure” or “settlement”—a farm or village in a valley. Cumpton is a recorded variant. Families took the name from the locality rather than from an occupation or father’s given name. Place is high confidence for that valley-settlement origin, and Compton closes the US Census 2020 top-1,000 drafting run as catalog #1000.