Oldknow

English

Etymology

Habitational surname from a now lost village, from Old English eald (“old”) + cnoll (“summit, knoll”).

Proper noun

Oldknow (plural Oldknows)

1. A surname from Old English.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Oldknow is the 17512^th most common surname in England, belonging to 278 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Oldknow”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
• Forebears