Cawston

English

Alternative forms

• (surname): Cason

Etymology

Recorded as Caustune in the Domesday Book, it probably derives from the genitive case of the Old Norse personal name Kalfr + -s- + Old English tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Proper noun

Cawston (countable and uncountable, plural Cawstons)

1. A village and civil parish in Broadland district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG136312).
2. A village and civil parish in Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP472157).
3. A habitational surname.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Cawston is the 9773^rd most common surname in England, belonging to 615 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Cawston”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 306.