Tracing the Pilkinton Family Name

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Family name meaning

Pilkinton is best understood alongside Pilkington: both are English spellings of a single family name. Surname dictionaries give the meaning as “Farmstead of Pileca”.

Records show Pilkinton as one of the forms Pilkington took over time. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. The 2010 US Census counted 1,009 people named Pilkinton, ranking it number 24,718 among American surnames.

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