Bampton
English edit
Etymology edit
From Old English bēam (“beam”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Proper noun edit
Bampton (countable and uncountable, plural Bamptons)
- (uncountable) A placename:
- A village and civil parish in Eden district, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref NY5118).
- A small town and civil parish in Mid Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS9522)
- A village and civil parish in West Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP3103).
- (countable) A habitational surname from Old English
Statistics edit
- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Bampton is the 6046th most common surname in England, belonging to 1150 individuals.
Further reading edit
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Bampton”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 93.
- Forebears