Oxenbridge
English
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Etymology
editHabitational surname from a minor place in the parish of Iden, in Sussex, from Old English oxan (“oxen”) + bryċġ (“bridge”).[1]
Proper noun
editOxenbridge (plural Oxenbridges)
- A surname from Old English.
Statistics
edit- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Oxenbridge is the 23064th most common surname in Australia, belonging to 108 individuals.
References
edit- ^ Mark Antony Lower (1860) “Oxenbridge”, in Patronymica Britannica. A Dictionary of the Family Names of the United Kingdom., London: John Russell Smith, […]; Lewes: G. P. Bacon, page 252, column 2.
Further reading
edit- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Oxenbridge”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
- Forebears