Wroughton
English edit
Etymology edit
Perhaps from Old Norse hverfr (“shifty, changeable”), referring to a local river, + Old English tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Proper noun edit
Wroughton (countable and uncountable, plural Wroughtons)
- A village and civil parish in Swindon district, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU1480).
- A habitational surname.
Statistics edit
- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Wroughton is the 169773th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 126 individuals.
Further reading edit
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Wroughton”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
Categories:
- English terms derived from Old Norse
- English terms derived from Old English
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Villages in Wiltshire, England
- en:Villages in England
- en:Civil parishes of England
- en:Places in Wiltshire, England
- en:Places in England
- English surnames
- English surnames from Old English
- English surnames from Old Norse