Tunbridge

English

Etymology

Habitational surname from any of various places called Tunbridge or Tonbridge, from Old English tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”) + bryċġ (“bridge”).

Proper noun

Tunbridge (countable and uncountable, plural Tunbridges)

1. (uncountable) A placename:
   1. A town in the Central LGA Region of Tasmania, Australia.
   2. An unincorporated community in DeWitt County, Illinois, United States.
   3. A town in Orange County, Vermont, United States.
2. (countable) A surname from Old English.

Related terms

• Tunbridge Wells

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Tunbridge is the 8940^th most common surname in England, belonging to 693 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Tunbridge”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
• Forebears