Teesdale

English

Alternative forms

• (surname): Teasdale, Tisdale, Tisdel, Tisdell

Etymology

From Tees (“a river”) + dale.

Proper noun

Teesdale (countable and uncountable, plural Teesdales)

1. The valley of the River Tees in County Durham, with the upper part in Eden district, Cumbria, England.
2. A small town in Golden Plains Shire, Victoria, Australia.
3. A habitational surname.

Derived terms

• Middleton-in-Teesdale

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Teesdale is the 49914^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 420 individuals. Teesdale is most common among White (84.05%) and Black/African American (11.43%) individuals.

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• teaseled, teal-seed