Freckleton

English

Etymology

From the Old English personal name Frecia + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Proper noun

Freckleton (countable and uncountable, plural Freckletons)

1. A village and civil parish in Fylde borough, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD4328).
2. A habitational surname from Old English.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Freckleton is the 46487^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 458 individuals. Freckleton is most common among Black/African American (53.28%) and White (42.58%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Freckleton”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 600.