Potton
English
Etymology
From Old English pott (“pot”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Proper noun
Potton (countable and uncountable, plural Pottons)
- A town and civil parish with a town council in Central Bedfordshire, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL2249).
- A township municipality of Memphrémagog Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada.
- A habitational surname from Old English.
Derived terms
- Potton Island
Statistics
- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Potton is the 9549th most common surname in England, belonging to 634 individuals.
References
- Survey of English Place-Names
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Potton”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
- Forebears