Findon
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English
Etymology
From either Old English finn (“coarse grass”) or fīn (“heap, pile, especially of wood”) + dūn (“hill”).[1]
Proper noun
Findon (countable and uncountable, plural Findons)
- (uncountable) A placename:
- A village and civil parish in Arun district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ1208).
- A coastal village in Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO9397).
- A western suburb of Adelaide, in the City of Charles Sturt, South Australia.
- (countable) A habitational surname from Old English.
Derived terms
Statistics
- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Findon is the 18807th most common surname in England, belonging to 249 individuals.
References
- ^ "Key to English Place Names". Key to English Place Names- Worth Kent. University of Nottingham.
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Findon”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 575.
- Forebears