Tweeddale

English

Alternative forms

• (surname): Tweedale

Etymology

From Tweed +‎ dale.

Proper noun

Tweeddale (countable and uncountable, plural Tweeddales)

1. (traditional name) The area drained by the upper reaches of the River Tweed in Scotland.
2. A local government district of Scottish Borders, Scotland, which replaced Peeblesshire in 1975, and was abolished in 1996 when Scottish Borders became a unitary authority.
3. A habitational surname.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Tweeddale is the 159417^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 137 individuals.

Further reading

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