Weedon
English edit
Etymology edit
From Old English wēoh (“pre-Christian idol”) + dun (“hill”).
Proper noun edit
Weedon (countable and uncountable, plural Weedons)
- A village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, previously in Aylesbury Vale district (OS grid ref SP8118). [1]
- Short for Weedon Bec, Northamptonshire, England.
- A municipality in Le Haut-Saint-François Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada.
- A habitational surname from Old English.
Derived terms edit
Statistics edit
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Weedon is the 22543rd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1140 individuals. Weedon is most common among White (61.84%) and Black/African American (30.0%) individuals.
References edit
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Weedon”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
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- English terms derived from Old English
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
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- English countable nouns
- en:Villages in Buckinghamshire, England
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- en:Places in Buckinghamshire, England
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- English short forms
- en:Municipalities of Canada
- en:Places in Quebec
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- English surnames
- English surnames from Old English