Shillington
English
editEtymology
editFrom the Old English personal name Scyttel + -ing + dūn (“hill”).
Proper noun
editShillington (countable and uncountable, plural Shillingtons)
- (uncountable) A placename:
- A village and civil parish in Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL1234).
- A borough of Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States.
- (countable) A habitational surname from Old English.
Statistics
edit- According to the 2010 United States Census, Shillington is the 55619th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 369 individuals. Shillington is most common among White (97.56%) individuals.
Further reading
edit- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Shillington”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
Categories:
- English terms derived from Old English
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Villages in Bedfordshire, England
- en:Villages in England
- en:Civil parishes of England
- en:Places in Bedfordshire, England
- en:Places in England
- en:Boroughs in Pennsylvania, USA
- en:Places in Pennsylvania, USA
- en:Places in the United States
- English surnames
- English surnames from Old English