Potton

English

Etymology

From Old English pott (“pot”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Proper noun

Potton (countable and uncountable, plural Pottons)

1. A town and civil parish with a town council in Central Bedfordshire, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL2249).
2. A township municipality in Memphrémagog Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada.
3. A habitational surname from Old English.

Derived terms

• Potton Island

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Potton is the 9549^th most common surname in England, belonging to 634 individuals.

References

• Survey of English Place-Names

Further reading

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