Manton

Manton may refer to:

Manton as a surname

This surname is of Irish, English or French (Norman) origins. Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Manntáin ‘descendant of Manntán’, a personal name derived from a diminutive of manntach ‘toothless’. The word mountain in French is spelled as "montagne" and its pronunciation sounds very similar to the surname "Manton". Also, there were French Huguenots who settled within the United Kingdom during the 16th and 17th centuries.