Thistleton

English

Etymology

From Old English þistel (“thistle”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Proper noun

Thistleton (countable and uncountable, plural Thistletons)

1. A village and civil parish in Rutland, England (OS grid ref SK913180).
2. A hamlet in Greenhalgh-with-Thistleton parish, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD405773).
3. A habitational surname from Old English.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Thistleton is the 12712^th most common surname in England, belonging to 437 individuals.

Further reading

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