Beardwood
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English
Alternative forms
- (surname): Beardsworth
Etymology
From the Old English personal name Bearda + worþ (“enclosure”). The second element later developed into wood.
Proper noun
Beardwood (countable and uncountable, plural Beardwoods)
- A suburb of Blackburn, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD663294).
- A habitational surname from Old English.
Statistics
- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Beardwood is the 17371st most common surname in England, belonging to 281 individuals.
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Beardwood”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 120.