Tweeddale
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English
Alternative forms
- (surname): Tweedale
Etymology
Proper noun
Tweeddale (countable and uncountable, plural Tweeddales)
- (traditional name) The area drained by the upper reaches of the River Tweed in Scotland.
- A local government district of Scottish Borders, Scotland, which replaced Peeblesshire in 1975, and was abolished in 1996 when Scottish Borders became a unitary authority.
- A habitational surname.
Statistics
- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Tweeddale is the 159417th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 137 individuals.
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Tweeddale”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.