Desborough

English

Alternative forms

• (surname): Disbrow, Disbrowe

Etymology

From the Old English personal name Deor + -s- + burg (“fortress, stronghold”).

Proper noun

Desborough (countable and uncountable, plural Desboroughs)

1. A town in Kettering borough, Northamptonshire, England (OS grid ref SP8083).
2. A habitational surname from Old English.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Desborough is the 5106^th most common surname in England, belonging to 1409 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Desborough”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 447.