Singleton

See also: singleton

English

Etymology

From Old English sċingul (“shingle”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Proper noun

Singleton (countable and uncountable, plural Singletons)

1. (uncountable) A placename:
   1. A village and civil parish in Fylde borough, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD3838).
   2. A suburb in Great Chart with Singleton parish, Ashford borough, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ9841).
   3. A village and civil parish in Chichester district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref SU8713).
   4. A town and local government area (Singleton Council) north-west of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
   5. An outer southern suburb of Perth, Western Australia.
2. A habitational surname from Old English.
   • 2007, Tracy Chevalier, Burning Bright‎^[1], New York: Dutton, Part 4, Chapter 4, p. 126:

     […] she busied herself in the front room, rustling about in Anne Kellaway’s box of buttony materials filled with rings of various sizes, chips of sheep horn for the Singletons, a ball of flax for shaping round buttons, bits of linen for covering them, both sharp and blunt needles, and several different colors and thicknesses of thread.

   • 2013, Chris Godsil, Gordon F. Royle, Algebraic Graph Theory, Springer, page 77:

     Graphs with diameter $d$ and girth $2d+1$ are known as Moore graphs. They were introduced by Hoffman and Singleton in a paper that can be viewed as one of the prime sources of algebraic graph theory.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Singleton is the 622^nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 54621 individuals. Singleton is most common among Black/African American (48.62%) and White (45.91%) individuals.

References

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

German

Noun

Singleton n (strong, genitive Singletons, plural Singletons)

1. (software) singleton
2. (software, design) singleton pattern

Related terms

• multiton

Further reading

• “Singleton” in Duden online