Penistone
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See also: penistone
English
Alternative forms
- (surname): Peniston
Etymology
Perhaps from Proto-Brythonic *penn (“head”) + Old English -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”). No relation to penis.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Penistone (countable and uncountable, plural Penistones)
- A market town and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE2403). [1]
- A habitational surname from Old English.
Statistics
- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Penistone is the 16229th most common surname in England, belonging to 310 individuals.
References
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Penistone”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
- Forebears