Urmston
English
Etymology
From the Old English personal name *Wyrm + -s- + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).[1]
Pronunciation
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Proper noun
Urmston (countable and uncountable, plural Urmstons)
- A town in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SJ7594).
- A habitational surname from Old English
Statistics
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Urmston is the 106570th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 167 individuals. Urmston is most common among White (97.01%) individuals.
References
- ^ "Key to English Place Names". Key to English Place Names- Worth Kent. University of Nottingham.
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Urmston”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.