Consterdine

English

Etymology

Probably a corruption of the personal name Constantine.

Proper noun

Consterdine (plural Consterdines)

1. A surname transferred from the given name.
   • 1959 February, “Talking of Trains: Last steam from Crewe”, in Trains Illustrated, page 66:

     Steam locomotive construction at Crewe terminated on December 15, 1958, when Class "9" 2-10-0 No. 92250 left the works to take up duty. The Mayor of Crewe, Councillor Tom Consterdine, a former railwayman, drove the engine out of the paint shop.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Consterdine is the 16095^th most common surname in England, belonging to 314 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Consterdine”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 362.

Anagrams

• intersecond, non-discrete, nondiscrete