Ketteringham

English

Etymology

From an unattested Old English personal name found also in Kettering + hām (“village, hamlet”).

Proper noun

Ketteringham (countable and uncountable, plural Ketteringhams)

1. A village and civil parish (served by East Carleton and Ketteringham Parish Council) in South Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG1503).
2. A habitational surname from Old English.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Ketteringham is the 161220^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 135 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Ketteringham”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 297.