Fawthrop

English

Etymology

Habitational surname from the village of Farlesthorpe, in Lincolnshire, which is named with the Old Norse personal name Faraldr + þorp (“hamlet, village”).

Proper noun

Fawthrop (plural Fawthrops)

1. A surname from Old Norse.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Fawthrop is the 18301^st most common surname in England, belonging to 260 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Fawthrop”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 557.