Fawthrop
English edit
Etymology edit
Habitational surname from the village of Farlesthorpe, in Lincolnshire, which is named with the Old Norse personal name Faraldr + þorp (“hamlet, village”).
Proper noun edit
Fawthrop (plural Fawthrops)
- A surname from Old Norse.
Statistics edit
- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Fawthrop is the 18301st most common surname in England, belonging to 260 individuals.
Further reading edit
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Fawthrop”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 557.