Ragdale

English

Alternative forms

• (surname): Ragsdale

Etymology

From Old English hraca (“throat; gorge, ravine”) + dæl (“valley, dale”).

Proper noun

Ragdale (countable and uncountable, plural Ragdales)

1. A village in Hoby with Rotherby parish, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK662381).
2. A habitational surname from Old English.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Ragdale is the 55443^rd most common surname in England, belonging to 47 individuals.

Further reading

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