Royston.
A habitational surname from Old English.
Meaning & usage
A habitational surname from Old English.
A male given name transferred from the surname.
A town and civil parish in North Hertfordshire district, Hertfordshire, England, on the Cambridgeshire border (OS grid ref TL3541).
A large village in Barnsley borough, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE3611).
A suburb of Glasgow, Scotland (OS grid ref NS6066).
A seaside hamlet on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
A city in Franklin County, Hart County and Madison County, Georgia, United States.
A ghost town in Fisher County, Texas, United States.
Where this word comes from
From a place name in Hertfordshire, from the medieval given name Royce + Old English tūn (“settlement”).
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