Swettenham
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom the genitive form of the Old English personal name Sweta + hām (“homestead”) or hamm (“water meadow”).
Proper noun
editSwettenham (countable and uncountable, plural Swettenhams)
- A village and civil parish in Cheshire East district, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ800671).
- A habitational surname from Old English.
Derived terms
editStatistics
edit- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Swettenham is the 23763rd most common surname in England, belonging to 175 individuals.
Further reading
edit- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Swettenham”, 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 Cheshire, England
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- en:Civil parishes of England
- en:Places in Cheshire, England
- en:Places in England
- English surnames
- English surnames from Old English