Cawston
English
editAlternative forms
edit- (surname): Cason
Etymology
editRecorded as Caustune in the Domesday Book, it probably derives from the genitive case of the Old Norse personal name Kalfr + -s- + Old English tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Proper noun
editCawston (countable and uncountable, plural Cawstons)
- A village and civil parish in Broadland district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG136312).
- A village and civil parish in Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP472157).
- A habitational surname.
Statistics
edit- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Cawston is the 9773rd most common surname in England, belonging to 615 individuals.
Further reading
edit- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Cawston”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 306.
Categories:
- English terms derived from Old Norse
- English terms derived from Old English
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Villages in Norfolk, England
- en:Villages in England
- en:Civil parishes of England
- en:Places in Norfolk, England
- en:Places in England
- en:Villages in Warwickshire, England
- en:Places in Warwickshire, England
- English surnames
- English surnames from Old Norse
- English surnames from Old English