Wroughton
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English
Etymology
Perhaps from Old Norse hverfr (“shifty, changeable”), referring to a local river, + Old English tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Proper noun
Wroughton (countable and uncountable, plural Wroughtons)
- A village and civil parish in Swindon district, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU1480).
- A habitational surname.
Statistics
- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Wroughton is the 169773th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 126 individuals.
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Wroughton”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.