Hodnet
English
Alternative forms
- (surname): Hodnett
Etymology
From Welsh hawdd (“pleasant, peaceful”) + nant (“brook, stream”).
Proper noun
Hodnet (countable and uncountable, plural Hodnets)
- A village and civil parish in Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ613286). [1]
- A habitational surname from Welsh.
Statistics
- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Hodnet is the 517445th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 25 individuals.
References
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Hodnet”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 186.