Barnston
English
editEtymology
editFrom the Old English personal name Beorna + -s- + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Proper noun
editBarnston (countable and uncountable, plural Barnstons)
- A village and civil parish in Uttlesford district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL6419).
- A village in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England (OS grid ref SJ2883).
- A community of Coaticook, Quebec, Canada.
- A habitational surname from Old English.
Statistics
edit- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Barnston is the 66012th most common surname in England, belonging to 36 individuals.
Further reading
edit- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Barnston”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 103.
Anagrams
editCategories:
- English terms derived from Old English
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Villages in Essex, England
- en:Villages in England
- en:Civil parishes of England
- en:Places in Essex, England
- en:Places in England
- en:Villages in Merseyside, England
- en:Places in Merseyside, England
- en:Villages in Quebec
- en:Villages in Canada
- en:Places in Quebec
- en:Places in Canada
- English surnames
- English surnames from Old English