Atlow
English edit
Etymology edit
From the Old English personal name Eatta + hlāw (“hill; tumulus”).[1]
Proper noun edit
Atlow (countable and uncountable, plural Atlows)
- A village and civil parish in the Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK2348).
- A habitational surname from Old English.
Statistics edit
- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Atlow is the 197606th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 103 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), “Atlow”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 67.
- Forebears