Tregenna
English
Etymology
From Cornish tre (“homestead”) + kensa (“first, foremost”).
Proper noun
Tregenna (countable and uncountable, plural Tregennas)
- A hamlet in Veryan parish, on the south coast of Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW9440). [1]
- An 18th-century castle, Tregenna Castle, in St Ives, Cornwall, now a hotel (OS grid ref SW5139).
- A habitational surname from Cornish.
Statistics
- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Tregenna is the 42668th most common surname in England, belonging to 71 individuals.
References
- OS: Cornwall
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Tregenna”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.