Flockton

English

Etymology

From Old English flocc (“group, division, troop”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Proper noun

Flockton (countable and uncountable, plural Flocktons)

1. A village in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE2415).
2. A habitational surname from Old English.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Flockton is the 14782^th most common surname in England, belonging to 356 individuals.

References

• Survey of English Place-Names

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Flockton”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 583.
• Forebears