Killingworth
Appearance
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- (surname): Killingsworth
Etymology
[edit]From the unattested Old English personal name *Cylla + -ing (“belonging to”) + worþ (“enclosure”).
Proper noun
[edit]Killingworth (countable and uncountable, plural Killingworths)
- (uncountable) A placename:
- A town in the Metropolitan Borough of North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England (OS grid ref NZ2771).
- A small town in the City of Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia.
- A town in Middlesex County, Connecticut, United States.
- (countable) A habitational surname from Old English.
Statistics
[edit]- According to the 2010 United States Census, Killingworth is the 153769th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 106 individuals. Killingworth is most common among White (48.11%) and Black/African American (48.11%) individuals.
Further reading
[edit]- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Killingworth”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 304.
Categories:
- English terms derived from Old English
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Towns in Tyne and Wear, England
- en:Towns in England
- en:Places in Tyne and Wear, England
- en:Places in England
- en:Towns in New South Wales
- en:Towns in Australia
- en:Places in New South Wales
- en:Places in Australia
- en:Towns in Connecticut, USA
- en:Towns in the United States
- en:Places in Connecticut, USA
- en:Places in the United States
- English surnames
- English surnames from Old English