Heptonstall

English

Alternative forms

• (surname): Heppenstall

Etymology

From Old English hēope (“rosehip”) or hēopa (“dog-rose, bramble”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”) + steall (“stable”).

Proper noun

Heptonstall (countable and uncountable, plural Heptonstalls)

1. A village and civil parish of Calderdale district, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SD988279).
2. A habitational surname from Old English.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Heptonstall is the 16305^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 308 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Heptonstall”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 166.