Cargill

English

Etymology

Probably from Pictish. The first element is equivalent to Welsh caer (“fort, ramparts”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kɑːɡɪl/

Proper noun

Cargill (countable and uncountable, plural Cargills)

1. A hamlet in Perthshire, Perth and Kinross council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO1536).
2. A community of Brockton municipality, Bruce County, Ontario, Canada.
3. A habitational surname from Scottish Gaelic.
   • 2022 January 15, Binyamin Appelbaum, “Building a Better Meatpacking Industry”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     When a rival meatpacker filed an antitrust lawsuit to block the deal, the Reagan administration intervened on the side of Cargill.

Derived terms

• Invercargill

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Cargill is the 7363^rd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 4524 individuals. Cargill is most common among White (72.24%) and Black/African American (20.87%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Cargill”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 289.

Anagrams

• grallic