Bingley
English
Etymology
From the Old English personal name Bynna + -ing (“belonging to”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”) .
Proper noun
Bingley (countable and uncountable, plural Bingleys)
- A market town and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE108389).
- A habitational surname from Old English.
- 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], Pride and Prejudice, volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton […], OCLC 38659585:
- Mr. Bingley was good-looking and gentlemanlike; he had a pleasant countenance […]
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Statistics
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Bingley is the 48256th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 438 individuals. Bingley is most common among White (53.2%) and Black/African American (36.99%) individuals.
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Bingley”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 162.
Anagrams
- Ingleby, beingly, belying