Dashwood
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English
Etymology
A variant of Ashwood, with fused French preposition de (“of”).
Proper noun
Dashwood (plural Dashwoods)
- A surname.
- 1811, Jane Austen, chapter 11, in Sense and Sensibility:
- Little had Mrs. Dashwood or her daughters imagined when they first came into Devonshire, that so many engagements would arise to occupy their time as shortly presented themselves, or that they should have such frequent invitations and such constant visitors as to leave them little leisure for serious employment.
Statistics
- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Dashwood is the 11498th most common surname in England, belonging to 500 individuals.
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Dashwood”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 414.
- Forebears