Kingsnorth
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old English cyning (“king”) + snād (“morsel, bit; something cut off, detached land”).
Proper noun[edit]
Kingsnorth (countable and uncountable, plural Kingsnorths)
- A village and civil parish in Ashford district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR002393).
- An industrial locality in Hoo St Werburgh parish, Medway, Kent (OS grid ref TQ8072).
- A habitational surname from Old English.
Statistics[edit]
- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Kingsnorth is the 7913th most common surname in England, belonging to 814 individuals.
Further reading[edit]
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Kingsnorth”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 307.