Dungworth

English

Etymology

From Old English dung (“dungeon, underground place”) + worþ (“enclosure”).

Proper noun

Dungworth (countable and uncountable, plural Dungworths)

1. A hamlet in Bradfield civil parish, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SK2889).
2. A habitational surname from Old English.

Statistics

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

References

• Survey of English Place-Names

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Dungworth”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 499.
• Forebears