Asquith

English

Etymology

Variant of Askwith.

Proper noun

Asquith (countable and uncountable, plural Asquiths)

1. A surname from Old Norse.
2. A suburb in Hornsby Shire, north of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
3. A town in south-central Saskatchewan, Canada.

Derived terms

• Asquithian
• Asquithite

 

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Asquith is the 38850^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 568 individuals. Asquith is most common among White (90.85%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Asquith”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 64.