The English surname Aston is an habitational name from any of several places in England called Aston. Most were named from Old English east meaning “east” and  tun meaning ‘settlement.”  The first written reference to the name is in 1200 when Richard de Aston was recorded in the Curia Regis Rolls of Gloucestershire. Asthone de Sancto Luca is noted in the Documents relating to the Danelaw in Lincolnshire in 1140, and Thomas filius Adestan is listed in the Pipe Rolls of Yorkshire in 1187. The are more than 3,800 people living in The United States today with the last name Aston.