Bowbrick

English

Etymology

Topographic surname for someone who lived above the brook, from Old English bufan (“above”) + brōc (“brook, stream, torrent”).

Proper noun

Bowbrick (plural Bowbricks)

1. A surname from Old English.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Bowbrick is the 24037^th most common surname in England, belonging to 172 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Bowbrick”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 208.