Nethercote

English

Alternative forms

• (surname): Nethercott

Etymology

From Old English niþera (“lower”) + cot (“cottage”).

Proper noun

Nethercote (countable and uncountable, plural Nethercotes)

1. A hamlet in Banbury civil parish, Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP475141).
2. A habitational surname from Old English.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Nethercote is the 42668^th most common surname in England, belonging to 71 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Nethercote”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 660.