Lamerton

English

Etymology

From the name of the River Lumburn + Old English tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Proper noun

Lamerton (countable and uncountable, plural Lamertons)

1. A village and civil parish in West Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX4476).
2. A habitational surname from Old English.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Lamerton is the 13004^th most common surname in England, belonging to 424 individuals.

References

• Survey of English Place-Names

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Lamerton”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 385.
• Forebears