Roxborough
English
editEtymology
editVariant spelling of Roxburgh.
Proper noun
editRoxborough (countable and uncountable, plural Roxboroughs)
- (uncountable) A placename:
- A small community of Manchester parish, Jamaica.
- A town on Tobago, Trinidad and Tobago.
- A neighbourhood, formerly a township, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
- (countable) A surname.
Statistics
edit- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Roxborough is the 20438th most common surname in England, belonging to 220 individuals.
Further reading
edit- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Roxborough”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
- Forebears
Categories:
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Villages in Jamaica
- en:Places in Jamaica
- en:Towns in Trinidad and Tobago
- en:Places in Trinidad and Tobago
- en:Neighborhoods in Pennsylvania, USA
- en:Places in Philadelphia
- en:Places in Pennsylvania, USA
- en:Places in the United States
- English surnames