TRITTON
Pronunciation/ˈtrɪtən/
GenderMale
Language(s)English
Origin
Word/nameOld Norse;
or Old Norse and Old English
Meaning"The farm of Trit"
Region of originDuchy of Normandy (Falaise and Bayeux);
and Kingdom of England (Kent and Essex)
Other names
Alternative spellingTrittun (11th and Pre-11th Century);[1]
or Trytton (17th and Pre-17th Century);
or Tritten (17th and Pre-17th Century)
Variant form(s)تريتن (Arabic);
トリトン (Japonese);
Триттон (Russian);
Trıtton (Turkish)
Related namesTritten [2]

Tritton is an English surname of Anglo-Norman origin.[3]

Etymology

The name originates from an Anglo-Scandinavian combination of the personal name Trit and of the second element ton.[4] The family name translates as "The farm of Trit". The first element Trit originates either from the Old East Norse dialect þryzker itself from Old Norse þrjózkr ("defiant"); compare with modern Swedish noun trots ("defiance"); meaning "the defiant one" [5] or from the Old Norse þróttr ("force", "power"); compare with modern Icelandic noun þróttur ("vigor", "force"); meaning "the strong one". The second element ton originates from either Old English tūn or Old Norse tún, both sharing the same meaning ("enclosure", "settlement", "farm").[6]

Region of origin

The name occurs in Stapylton's Rolls of the Norman Exchequer and in the ''Mémoires des Antiquaires de Normandie'' as holding lands in the neighborhood of Falaise and Bayeux in Normandy (France) as well as in the counties of Kent and Essex in England during the period covering the end of the 11th Century to the beginning of the 13th Century.[7] The surname also appears in the Lancashire Pipe rolls in the year 1203 with a certain Walter de Tritton, the latter being mentioned as owing half a mark "to be acquitted from an appeal, probably of murder".[8] According to these same literary sources, the name disappears from the coasts of Normandy after the year 1204 coinciding therefore with the French invasion of Normandy (1202–1204).

The Scandinavian and later Norman origins of the name are also reinforced by several hypotheses among which we can cite the etymology of the Norwegian parish of Tretten, the existence of the German village of Trittenheim taking its roots from a Norsemen settlement on the edge of the river Moselle during the Viking raids in the Rhineland or also the italian surname Trittoni of Italo-Norman origin taking its roots from the Norman conquest of southern Italy.

People

Notable people with the name include:

See also

References

  1. ↑ Tritton, J. Herbert (1907). Tritton: the Place and the Family - "Roger Trittun,1100, Kent-Essex". London: Arthur L. Humphreys. p. 43.
  2. ↑ Hnery Barber, M.D. (Clerk) (1894). British Family Names: Their Origin and Meaning, with List of scandinavia, Frisian, anglo-Saxon, and Norman Names. London, England: Elliot Stock. p. 215.
  3. ↑ Charles Allan Bernau (1907). The International Genealogical Directory. "Pendeen", Bowes Road, Walton-on-Thames, England: Chas. A. Bernau. p. 83.
  4. ↑ Cassidy Croci (2020). Two Languages, One Name: Hybrid Place-Names in the East Midlands. Nottingham, England: University of Nottingham.
  5. ↑ Name Origin Research 1980-2022 (1980). Surname scroll for: Tritton. surnamedb.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  6. ↑ University of Bergen (1986). tun. Bergen, Norway: University of Bergen.
  7. ↑ Tritton, J. Herbert (1907). Tritton: the Place and the Family. London: Arthur L. Humphreys. p. 43.
  8. ↑ Exchequer (1902). The Lancashire Pipe rolls of 31 Henry I., A.D. 1130, and of the reigns of Henry II., A.D. 1155-1189; Richard I., A.D. 1189-1199; and King John, A.D. 1199-1216. The Latin text extended and notes added. Also early Lancashire charters of the period from the reign of William Rufus to that of King John. Liverpool: Henry Young. pp. 169, 174.
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