Bowbrick
English
editEtymology
editTopographic surname for someone who lived above the brook, from Old English bufan (“above”) + brōc (“brook, stream, torrent”).
Proper noun
editBowbrick (plural Bowbricks)
- A surname from Old English.
Statistics
edit- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Bowbrick is the 24037th most common surname in England, belonging to 172 individuals.
Further reading
edit- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Bowbrick”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 208.