Roxborough

English

Etymology

Variant of Roxburgh.

Proper noun

Roxborough (countable and uncountable, plural Roxboroughs)

1. (uncountable) A placename:
   1. A small community of Manchester parish, Jamaica.
   2. A town on Tobago, Trinidad and Tobago.
   3. A neighbourhood, formerly a township, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
2. (countable) A surname.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Roxborough is the 20438^th most common surname in England, belonging to 220 individuals.

Further reading

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