Oglethorpe

English

Etymology

Habitational surname from a place in West Yorkshire, Bramham cum Oglethorpe, so called from the Old Norse personal name Oddketill + thorpe. The personal name is composed by the elements odd (“point of a weapon”) + ketill (“cauldron”).

Proper noun

Oglethorpe (countable and uncountable, plural Oglethorpes)

1. A surname from Old Norse.
2. A small city, the county seat of Macon County, Georgia, United States.

Derived terms

• Bramham cum Oglethorpe
• Oglethorpe County

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Oglethorpe is the 26761^st most common surname in England, belonging to 146 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Oglethorpe”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.