Boughton

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English

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Boughton

Etymology

From the Old English personal name Bucca, a byname from bucc (“buck, he-goat”), + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Proper noun

Boughton (countable and uncountable, plural Boughtons)

(uncountable) A placename:
1. A village and civil parish in King's Lynn and West Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TF7002). ^[1]
2. A village and civil parish to the north of Northampton in West Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire, England, formerly in Daventry district (OS grid ref SP7565). ^[2]
3. A village in Ollerton and Boughton parish, Newark and Sherwood district, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK6768).
A habitational surname from Old English.

Derived terms

Statistics

According to the 2010 United States Census, Boughton is the 9978^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 3233 individuals. Boughton is most common among White (87.5%) individuals.

References

Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Boughton”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 204.

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