Egginton
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English
Alternative forms
- (surname): Eginton
Etymology
From the Old English personal name Ecga + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Proper noun
Egginton (countable and uncountable, plural Eggintons)
- A village and civil parish in South Derbyshire district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK2628). [1]
- A habitational surname from Old English.
Statistics
- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Egginton is the 5651st most common surname in England, belonging to 1246 individuals.
References
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Egginton”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 514.
- Forebears