Morton surname meaning

Morton is an English and Scottish habitational surname from one of several places called Morton. The place-name is generally analyzed as a settlement or farm associated with a moor, from Old English elements for moor and enclosure or settlement. Different Morton localities could create unrelated family lines, so the surname alone cannot identify a single ancestral village. Morten and Mortoun preserve variant spellings found in records. The defining information is where an ancestor lived or came from, not a relationship to someone named Mort. Place is the secure catalog type, with high confidence.