Baverstock

English

Etymology

Recorded as Babestoche in the Domesday Book, the placename is from the Old English personal name Babba + stoc (“outlying farm”).

Proper noun

Baverstock (countable and uncountable, plural Baverstocks)

1. A village in Dinton parish, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU0231).
2. A habitational surname from Old English.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Baverstock is the 1476^th most common surname in England, belonging to 4923 individuals.

References

• Survey of English Place-Names

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Baverstock”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 117.
• Forebears