Pewsey
English
editEtymology
editFrom the unrecorded Old English personal name *Pefi + -s- + īeġ (“island; well-watered land”).
Proper noun
editPewsey (countable and uncountable, plural Pewseys)
- A village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU1660).
- A habitational surname from Old English.
Statistics
edit- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Pewsey is the 32533rd most common surname in England, belonging to 108 individuals.
References
editFurther reading
edit- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Pewsey”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
- Forebears
Anagrams
editCategories:
- English terms derived from Old English
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Villages in Wiltshire, England
- en:Villages in England
- en:Civil parishes of England
- en:Places in Wiltshire, England
- en:Places in England
- English surnames
- English surnames from Old English