Cranswick
English
Etymology
Perhaps from Old English cran (“crane”) + -s- + wīċ (“village”).
Proper noun
Cranswick (countable and uncountable, plural Cranswicks)
- A suburban village in Hutton Cranswick parish, East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref TA0252). [1]
- A habitational surname from Old English.
Statistics
- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Cranswick is the 16229th most common surname in England, belonging to 310 individuals.
References
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Cranswick”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 381.
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