Hobhouse

English

Etymology

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Proper noun

Hobhouse (countable and uncountable, plural Hobhouses)

1. A surname.
2. A small farming town in Free State province, South Africa, named after Emily Hobhouse.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Hobhouse is the 43050^th most common surname in England, belonging to 70 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Hobhouse”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 185.