Pewsey
English
Etymology
From the unrecorded Old English personal name *Pefi + -s- + īeġ (“island; well-watered land”).
Proper noun
Pewsey (countable and uncountable, plural Pewseys)
- A village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU1660).
- A habitational surname from Old English.
Statistics
- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Pewsey is the 32533rd most common surname in England, belonging to 108 individuals.
References
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Pewsey”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
- Forebears
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