Birkenshaw
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See also: birkenshaw
English
Alternative forms
- (surname): Birkinshaw, Burkinshaw
Etymology
From Old English birċen (“birchen, made of birch”) + sċeaga (“copse, thicket, shaw”).
Proper noun
Birkenshaw (countable and uncountable, plural Birkenshaws)
- A village in North Lanarkshire, Scotland (OS grid ref NS692586).
- A village in the Kirklees borough, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE203279).
- A surname from Old English.
Statistics
- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Birkenshaw is the 19989th most common surname in England, belonging to 227 individuals.
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Birkenshaw”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 163.