Shimwell
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editAnglicized form of the Old Norse personal name Svanhildr, which is composed of the elements svan (“swan”) and hildr (“battle”).
Proper noun
editShimwell (plural Shimwells)
- A surname from Old Norse.
Descendants
edit- → Translingual: Shimwellia
Statistics
edit- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Shimwell is the 12499th most common surname in England, belonging to 447 individuals.
Further reading
edit- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Shimwell”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.