Upperton

English

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Upperton (countable and uncountable, plural Uppertons)

1. A hamlet in Tillington parish, Chichester district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref SU9522).
2. A village in North Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS8071).
3. A habitational surname from Old English.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Upperton is the 26761^st most common surname in England, belonging to 146 individuals.

Further reading

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