Cleator
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English
Etymology
From Old Norse klettr (“rock, cliff”) + erg (“shieling”), because of the presence of an outcrop of limestone cliffs near the village.
Proper noun
Cleator (countable and uncountable, plural Cleators)
- A village in Cleator Moor parish, Copeland district, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref NY0113).
- A habitational surname from Old Norse.
Derived terms
Statistics
- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Cleator is the 22402nd most common surname in England, belonging to 191 individuals.
References
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Cleator”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 343.
- Forebears