Washbrook

English

Etymology

From either Old English wæsce (“a place for washing”) or wæsc (“washing, flood”) + brōc (“brook, stream”).

Proper noun

Washbrook (countable and uncountable, plural Washbrooks)

1. A village in Copdock and Washbrook civil parish, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TM1142).
2. A habitational surname from Old English.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Washbrook is the 9268^th most common surname in England, belonging to 661 individuals.

Further reading

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