Seddington

English

Etymology

From Old English sūþ (“south”) + -ing + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Proper noun

Seddington (countable and uncountable, plural Seddingtons)

1. A hamlet in Sandy parish, Central Bedfordshire district, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL1747).
2. A habitational surname from Old English.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Seddington is the 158774^th most common surname in England, belonging to 10 individuals.

References

• Survey of English Place-Names

Further reading

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