Horscroft

English

Etymology

Toponymic surname for someone who lived by or worked at an enclosure for horses, from Middle English hors (“horse”) + croft (“enclosed field”).

Proper noun

Horscroft (plural Horscrofts)

1. A surname from Middle English.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Horscroft is the 12635^th most common surname in England, belonging to 441 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Horscroft”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 203.
• Forebears