Poppleton

English

Etymology

Habitational surname from the villages of Nether and Upper Poppleton, in North Yorkshire, from Old English popel (“pebble”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Proper noun

Poppleton (countable and uncountable, plural Poppletons)

1. A surname from Old English.
2. A neighbourhood of Baltimore, Maryland, United States.

Derived terms

• Nether Poppleton
• Upper Poppleton

 

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Pickrel is the 38332^nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 578 individuals. Pickrel is most common among White (94.81%) individuals.

Further reading

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