Boughton

English

Etymology

From the Old English personal name Bucca, a byname from bucc (“buck, he-goat”), + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Proper noun

Boughton (countable and uncountable, plural Boughtons)

1. (uncountable) A placename:
   1. A village and civil parish in King's Lynn and West Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TF7002).
   2. A village and civil parish to the north of Northampton in West Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire, England, formerly in Daventry district (OS grid ref SP7565).
   3. A village in Ollerton and Boughton parish, Newark and Sherwood district, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK6768).
2. A habitational surname from Old English.

Derived terms

• Boughton under Blean

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Boughton is the 9978^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 3233 individuals. Boughton is most common among White (87.5%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Boughton”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 204.