Pewsey

English

Etymology

From the unrecorded Old English personal name *Pefi + -s- + īeġ (“island; well-watered land”).

Proper noun

Pewsey (countable and uncountable, plural Pewseys)

1. A village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU1660).
2. A habitational surname from Old English.

Derived terms

• Vale of Pewsey

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Pewsey is the 32533^rd most common surname in England, belonging to 108 individuals.

References

• Survey of English Place-Names

Further reading

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

Anagrams

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