Washbrook
English edit
Etymology edit
From either Old English wæsce (“a place for washing”) or wæsc (“washing, flood”) + brōc (“brook, stream”).[1]
Proper noun edit
Washbrook (countable and uncountable, plural Washbrooks)
- A village in Copdock and Washbrook civil parish, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TM1142).
- A habitational surname from Old English.
Statistics edit
- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Washbrook is the 9268th most common surname in England, belonging to 661 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), “Washbrook”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
- Forebears