Sibthorpe

English

Alternative forms

• Sibthorp

Etymology

From the Old Norse personal name Sibba + thorpe.

Proper noun

Sibthorpe (countable and uncountable, plural Sibthorpes)

1. A village in Rushcliffe district, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK763454).
2. A habitational surname from Old Norse.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Oglethorpe is the 14157^st most common surname in England, belonging to 378 individuals.

Further reading

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