Plympton

Plympton

English

Alternative forms

• (surname): Plimpton

Etymology

Middle English, from Old English Plymentun (c. 900), from plymen (“growing with plum trees”), from plume[1]. Doublet of Plumpton.

Pronunciation

1. IPA^(key): /ˈplɪmptən/

Proper noun

Plympton (countable and uncountable, plural Plymptons)

1. A former town which is now a suburb of Plymouth, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX5456).
2. A town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States.
3. A former township in Lambton County, Ontario, Canada, now in Plympton-Wyoming.
4. A habitational surname from Old English.

Derived terms

• Plympton St Maurice
• Plympton-Wyoming

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Plympton is the 75564^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 255 individuals. Plympton is most common among White (92.94%) individuals.

References

1. Watts, Victor (2010) The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-names, 1st paperback edition, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 475–6

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Plympton”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.