Otterburn
English
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Etymology
[edit]From Old English oter (“otter”) + burna (“stream”).[1]
Proper noun
[edit]Otterburn (countable and uncountable, plural Otterburns)
- (uncountable) A placename:
- A village and civil parish in Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NY8893).
- A village and civil parish in Craven district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SD8857).
- An unincorporated community in Amelia County, Virginia, United States.
- (countable) A habitational surname from Old English.
Statistics
[edit]- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Otterburn is the 30233rd most common surname in England, belonging to 121 individuals.
References
[edit]- ^ "Key to English Place Names". Key to English Place Names- Worth Kent. University of Nottingham.
Further reading
[edit]- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Otterburn”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
- Forebears
Categories:
- English terms derived from Old English
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Villages in Northumberland, England
- en:Villages in England
- en:Civil parishes of England
- en:Places in Northumberland, England
- en:Places in England
- en:Villages in North Yorkshire, England
- en:Places in North Yorkshire, England
- en:Unincorporated communities in Virginia, USA
- en:Unincorporated communities in the United States
- en:Places in Virginia, USA
- en:Places in the United States
- English surnames
- English surnames from Old English