Thistleton
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English
Etymology
From Old English þistel (“thistle”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Proper noun
Thistleton (countable and uncountable, plural Thistletons)
- A village and civil parish in Rutland, England (OS grid ref SK913180).
- A hamlet in Greenhalgh-with-Thistleton parish, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD405773).
- A habitational surname from Old English.
Statistics
- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Thistleton is the 12712th most common surname in England, belonging to 437 individuals.
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Thistleton”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.