Gunstone

See also: gunstone

English

Etymology

From the Old Norse personal name Gunni + -s- + Old English tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Proper noun

Gunstone (countable and uncountable, plural Gunstones)

1. A hamlet near Codsall, South Staffordshire district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SJ8704).
2. A habitational surname.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Gunstone is the 11884^th most common surname in England, belonging to 478 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Gunstone”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 102.
• Forebears

Anagrams

• nonguest, onguents