Oxenbridge
English
Etymology
Habitational surname from a minor place in the parish of Iden, in Sussex, from Old English oxan (“oxen”) + bryċġ (“bridge”)[1].
Proper noun
Oxenbridge (plural Oxenbridges)
- A surname from Old English.
Statistics
- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Oxenbridge is the 23064th most common surname in Australia, belonging to 108 individuals.
References
- Mark Antony Lower (1860), “Oxenbridge”, in Patronymica Britannica. A Dictionary of the Family Names of the United Kingdom., London: John Russell Smith, […]; Lewes: G. P. Bacon, page 252, column 2.
- Survey of English Place-Names
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Oxenbridge”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
- Forebears