Scruton
English
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Etymology
[edit]From the Old Norse personal name Skurfa + Old English tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Proper noun
[edit]Scruton (countable and uncountable, plural Scrutons)
- A village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Hambleton district (OS grid ref SE2992). [1]
- A habitational surname.
Derived terms
[edit]Statistics
[edit]- According to the 2010 United States Census, Scruton is the 40856th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 534 individuals. Scruton is most common among White (95.51%) individuals.
References
[edit]- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Scruton”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
Anagrams
[edit]Categories:
- English terms derived from Old Norse
- English terms derived from Old English
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Villages in North Yorkshire, England
- en:Villages in England
- en:Civil parishes of North Yorkshire, England
- en:Places in North Yorkshire, England
- en:Places in England
- English surnames
- English surnames from Old Norse
- English surnames from Old English