Wroughton

English

Etymology

Perhaps from Old Norse hverfr (“shifty, changeable”), referring to a local river, + Old English tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Proper noun

Wroughton (countable and uncountable, plural Wroughtons)

1. A village and civil parish in Swindon district, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU1480).
2. A habitational surname.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Wroughton is the 169773^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 126 individuals.

Further reading

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