Corstorphine
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English
Alternative forms
- (surname): Carstarphen
Etymology
Perhaps from Scottish Gaelic cros (“cross”) + Torfin, a Gaelicized form of the Old Norse personal name Þorfinnr.
Proper noun
Corstorphine (countable and uncountable, plural Corstorphines)
- A suburb of Edinburgh, Edinburgh council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT2073).
- A suburb of Dunedin, New Zealand.
- A habitational surname from Scottish Gaelic.
Statistics
- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Corstorphine is the 3758th most common surname in Scotland, belonging to 134 individuals.
References
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Corstorphine”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 371.