Potton
English
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Etymology
[edit]From Old English pott (“pot”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Proper noun
[edit]Potton (countable and uncountable, plural Pottons)
- A town and civil parish with a town council in Central Bedfordshire, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL2249). [1]
- A township municipality in Memphrémagog Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada.
- A habitational surname from Old English.
Derived terms
[edit]Statistics
[edit]- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Potton is the 9549th most common surname in England, belonging to 634 individuals.
References
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Potton”, 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:Towns in Bedfordshire, England
- en:Towns in England
- en:Civil parishes of England
- en:Places in Bedfordshire, England
- en:Places in England
- en:Townships in Quebec
- en:Townships in Canada
- en:Municipalities of Canada
- en:Places in Quebec
- en:Places in Canada
- English surnames
- English surnames from Old English