Oldknow
English
Etymology
Habitational surname from a now lost village, from Old English eald (“old”) + cnoll (“summit, knoll”).
Proper noun
Oldknow (plural Oldknows)
- A surname, from Old English.
Statistics
- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Oldknow is the 17512th most common surname in England, belonging to 278 individuals.
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Oldknow”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN