Egerton
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English
Etymology
From the Old English personal name Ecgheard or Ecghere + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Proper noun
Egerton (countable and uncountable, plural Egertons)
- A placename:
- A civil parish of Cheshire East, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom, with the settlement of Egerton Green (OS grid ref SJ5252).
- A village in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom (OS grid ref SD7114).
- A village in Ashford borough, Kent, England, United Kingdom (OS grid ref TQ9047).
- A community of Nova Scotia, Canada.
- (countable) A habitational surname from Old English.
- (countable) A male given name
Derived terms
Statistics
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Egerton is the 25486th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 970 individuals. Egerton is most common among White (71.96%) and Black/African American (24.12%) individuals.
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Egerton”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 514.