Binstead

English

Etymology

From Old English bēan (“bean”) + stede (“stead”); compare the doublet Binsted.

Proper noun

Binstead (countable and uncountable, plural Binsteads)

1. A village in the Isle of Wight, England (OS grid ref SZ5792).
2. A habitational surname from Old English.

Related terms

• Binsted

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Binstead is the 10286^th most common surname in England, belonging to 575 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Binstead”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 162.
• Forebears

Anagrams

• bandiest