Oglethorpe
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English
Etymology
Habitational surname from a place in West Yorkshire, Bramham cum Oglethorpe, so called from the Old Norse personal name Oddketill + thorpe. The personal name is composed by the elements odd (“point of a weapon”) + ketill (“cauldron”).
Proper noun
Oglethorpe (countable and uncountable, plural Oglethorpes)
- A surname from Old Norse.
- A small city, the county seat of Macon County, Georgia, United States.
Derived terms
Statistics
- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Oglethorpe is the 26761st most common surname in England, belonging to 146 individuals.
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Oglethorpe”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.