Fawthrop

English

Etymology

Habitational surname from the village of Farlesthorpe, in Lincolnshire, which is named with the Old Norse personal name Faraldr + þorp (“hamlet, village”).

Proper noun

Fawthrop (plural Fawthrops)

  1. A surname from Old Norse.

Statistics

  • According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Fawthrop is the 18301st most common surname in England, belonging to 260 individuals.

Further reading

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