Corstorphine

English

Alternative forms

• (surname): Carstarphen

Etymology

Perhaps from Scottish Gaelic cros (“cross”) + Torfin, a Gaelicized form of the Old Norse personal name Þorfinnr.

Proper noun

Corstorphine (countable and uncountable, plural Corstorphines)

1. A suburb of Edinburgh, Edinburgh council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT2073).
2. A suburb of Dunedin, New Zealand.
3. A habitational surname from Scottish Gaelic.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Corstorphine is the 3758^th most common surname in Scotland, belonging to 134 individuals.

References

• NZ Topo Map

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Corstorphine”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 371.