Bampton
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old English bēam (“beam”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Proper noun[edit]
Bampton (countable and uncountable, plural Bamptons)
- (uncountable) A placename:
- A village and civil parish in Eden district, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref NY5118).
- A small town and civil parish in Mid Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS9522)
- A village and civil parish in West Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP3103).
- (countable) A habitational surname from Old English
Statistics[edit]
- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Bampton is the 6046th most common surname in England, belonging to 1150 individuals.
Further reading[edit]
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Bampton”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 93.
- Forebears
Categories:
- English terms derived from Old English
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Villages in Cumbria, England
- en:Villages in England
- en:Civil parishes of England
- en:Places in Cumbria, England
- en:Places in England
- en:Towns in Devon, England
- en:Towns in England
- en:Places in Devon, England
- en:Villages in Oxfordshire, England
- en:Places in Oxfordshire, England
- English surnames
- English surnames from Old English