Baverstock
English
Etymology
Recorded as Babestoche in the Domesday Book, the placename is from the Old English personal name Babba + stoc (“outlying farm”).
Proper noun
Baverstock (countable and uncountable, plural Baverstocks)
- A village in Dinton parish, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU0231).
- A habitational surname from Old English.
Statistics
- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Baverstock is the 1476th most common surname in England, belonging to 4923 individuals.
References
- Survey of English Place-Names
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Baverstock”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 117.
- Forebears