Walton is a toponymic surname or placename of Anglo-Saxon origins. It derives from a place with the suffix tun ('town, farm, hamlet') and one of the prefixes wald ('a wood'), walesc ('foreigner') or walh ('farm worker'). First recorded as a surname in Oxfordshire in the person of Odo de Wolton on the Hundred Rolls in 1273. People with the name include: == A == Adam Walton (b. 1971), British radio DJ Alan Walton (1936–2015), British-born businessman Albert D. Walton (1886–1951), American Attor…