Tunbridge
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English
Etymology
Habitational surname from any of various places called Tunbridge or Tonbridge, from Old English tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”) + bryċġ (“bridge”).
Proper noun
Tunbridge (countable and uncountable, plural Tunbridges)
- (uncountable) A placename:
- A town in the Central LGA Region of Tasmania, Australia.
- An unincorporated community in DeWitt County, Illinois, United States.
- A town in Orange County, Vermont, United States.
- (countable) A surname from Old English.
Related terms
Statistics
- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Tunbridge is the 8940th most common surname in England, belonging to 693 individuals.
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Tunbridge”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
- Forebears