Marwood
English
editEtymology
editFrom Old English ġemære (“border, limit”) + wudu (“wood”).
Proper noun
editMarwood (countable and uncountable, plural Marwoods)
- A village in North Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS542013).
- A civil parish of County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ053972).
- A habitational surname from Old English.
Statistics
edit- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Marwood is the 6138th most common surname in England, belonging to 1130 individuals.
Further reading
edit- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Marwood”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 526.
Categories:
- English terms derived from Old English
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Villages in Devon, England
- en:Villages in England
- en:Places in Devon, England
- en:Places in England
- en:Civil parishes of England
- en:Places in County Durham, England
- English surnames
- English surnames from Old English