Fanshawe

English

Etymology

From an unknown element, possibly multiple distinct words originally, compounded with shaw (“forest, woods”).

Proper noun

Fanshawe (countable and uncountable, plural Fanshawes)

1. A surname.
2. A town in Le Flore County, Oklahoma, United States.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Fanshawe is the 14915^th most common surname in England, belonging to 351 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Fanshawe”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 550.
• Forebears