Alveston
English edit
Etymology edit
From the Old English personal name Ælfwīġ + stān (“stone”).[1]
Proper noun edit
Alveston (countable and uncountable, plural Alvestons)
- A village and civil parish in South Gloucestershire district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref ST6388).
- A habitational surname from Old English.
Statistics edit
- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Alveston is the 91802nd most common surname in England, belonging to 22 individuals.
References edit
- ^ "Key to English Place Names". Key to English Place Names- Worth Kent. University of Nottingham.
Further reading edit
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Alveston”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 31.
- Forebears