Tregenna

English

Etymology

From Cornish tre (“homestead”) + kensa (“first, foremost”).

Proper noun

Tregenna (countable and uncountable, plural Tregennas)

1. A hamlet in Veryan parish, on the south coast of Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW9440).
2. An 18th-century castle, Tregenna Castle, in St Ives, Cornwall, now a hotel (OS grid ref SW5139).
3. A habitational surname from Cornish.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Tregenna is the 42668^th most common surname in England, belonging to 71 individuals.

Further reading

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