Beardwood

English

Alternative forms

• (surname): Beardsworth

Etymology

From the Old English personal name Bearda + worþ (“enclosure”). The second element later developed into wood.

Proper noun

Beardwood (countable and uncountable, plural Beardwoods)

1. A suburb of Blackburn, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD663294).
2. A habitational surname from Old English.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Beardwood is the 17371^st most common surname in England, belonging to 281 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Beardwood”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 120.