Woolstencroft
English
Alternative forms
- Wolstencroft
Etymology
Habitational surname from a minor place in Agden, Cheshire, from the Old English personal name Wulfstān + croft (“enclosure”).
Proper noun
Woolstencroft (plural Woolstencrofts)
- A surname from Old English.
Statistics
- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Woolstencroft is the 24447th most common surname in England, belonging to 168 individuals.
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Woolstencroft”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
- Forebears