Upperton
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English
Etymology
From upper + Old English tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Proper noun
Upperton (countable and uncountable, plural Uppertons)
- A hamlet in Tillington parish, Chichester district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref SU9522).
- A village in North Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS8071).
- A habitational surname from Old English.
Statistics
- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Upperton is the 26761st most common surname in England, belonging to 146 individuals.
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Upperton”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
- Forebears