Roxborough
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English
Etymology
Variant of Roxburgh.
Proper noun
Roxborough (countable and uncountable, plural Roxboroughs)
- (uncountable) A placename:
- A small community of Manchester parish, Jamaica.
- A town on Tobago, Trinidad and Tobago.
- A neighbourhood, formerly a township, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
- (countable) A surname.
Statistics
- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Roxborough is the 20438th most common surname in England, belonging to 220 individuals.
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Roxborough”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
- Forebears