Egginton

English

Alternative forms

• (surname): Eginton

Etymology

From the Old English personal name Ecga + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Proper noun

Egginton (countable and uncountable, plural Eggintons)

1. A village and civil parish in South Derbyshire district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK2628).
2. A habitational surname from Old English.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Egginton is the 5651^st most common surname in England, belonging to 1246 individuals.

References

• Survey of English Place-Names

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Egginton”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 514.
• Forebears