Emberton

English

Etymology

From the Old English personal name Ēanbeohrt + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Proper noun

Emberton (countable and uncountable, plural Embertons)

1. A village and civil parish in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SP885495).
2. A habitational surname from Old English.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Emberton is the 17734^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1580 individuals. Emberton is most common among White (94.24%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Emberton”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 525.

Anagrams

• entomber