Cawston
English
Alternative forms
- (surname): Cason
Etymology
Recorded as Caustune in the Domesday Book, it probably derives from the genitive case of the Old Norse personal name Kalfr + -s- + Old English tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Proper noun
Cawston (countable and uncountable, plural Cawstons)
- A village and civil parish in Broadland district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG136312).
- A village and civil parish in Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP472157).
- A habitational surname.
Statistics
- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Cawston is the 9773rd most common surname in England, belonging to 615 individuals.
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Cawston”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 306.
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