Gunstone
See also: gunstone
English
Etymology
From the Old Norse personal name Gunni + -s- + Old English tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Proper noun
Gunstone (countable and uncountable, plural Gunstones)
- A hamlet near Codsall, South Staffordshire district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SJ8704).
- A habitational surname.
Statistics
- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Gunstone is the 11884th most common surname in England, belonging to 478 individuals.
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Gunstone”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 102.
- Forebears