Walmersley
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From the Old English personal name Waldmǣr, which is composed of the elements weald (“power, authority”) and mǣr (“famous”), + -s- + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”) .
Proper noun edit
Walmersley (countable and uncountable, plural Walmersleys)
- A village in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD8013).
- A habitational surname from Old English.
Statistics edit
- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Walmersley is the 31575th most common surname in England, belonging to 38 individuals.
Further reading edit
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Walmersley”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
- Forebears
Categories:
- English terms derived from Old English
- English terms suffixed with -leigh
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
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- English surnames from Old English