Egginton
English
editAlternative forms
edit- (surname): Eginton
Etymology
editFrom the Old English personal name Ecga + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Proper noun
editEgginton (countable and uncountable, plural Eggintons)
- A village and civil parish in South Derbyshire district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK2628). [1]
- A habitational surname from Old English.
Statistics
edit- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Egginton is the 5651st most common surname in England, belonging to 1246 individuals.
References
editFurther reading
edit- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Egginton”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 514.
- Forebears
Categories:
- English terms derived from Old English
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Villages in Derbyshire, England
- en:Villages in England
- en:Civil parishes of England
- en:Places in Derbyshire, England
- en:Places in England
- English surnames
- English surnames from Old English