Ashcroft
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Habitational surname from two minor places in England, from Old English æsċ (“ash tree”) + croft (“enclosed field”).
Proper noun
[edit]Ashcroft (countable and uncountable, plural Ashcrofts)
- (countable) A surname from Old English.
- (uncountable) A placename, from the surname:
- A village in the Thompson-Nicola Regional District, British Columbia, Canada.
- A ghost town in Pitkin County, Colorado, United States.
- A suburb of Sydney, in the City of Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia.
Statistics
[edit]- According to the 2010 United States Census, Ashcroft is the 16254th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1775 individuals. Ashcroft is most common among White (93.24%) individuals.
Further reading
[edit]- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Ashcroft”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 62.
Categories:
- English terms derived from Old English
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- English surnames
- English surnames from Old English
- en:Villages in British Columbia
- en:Villages in Canada
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- en:Ghost towns in Colorado, USA
- en:Places in Colorado, USA
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- en:Suburbs in New South Wales
- en:Places in Sydney
- en:Places in New South Wales
- en:Places in Australia