Kingsnorth

English

Etymology

From Old English cyning (“king”) + snād (“morsel, bit; something cut off, detached land”).

Proper noun

Kingsnorth (countable and uncountable, plural Kingsnorths)

1. A village and civil parish in Ashford district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR002393).
2. An industrial locality in Hoo St Werburgh parish, Medway, Kent (OS grid ref TQ8072).
3. A habitational surname from Old English.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Kingsnorth is the 7913^th most common surname in England, belonging to 814 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Kingsnorth”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 307.