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Origin Of The Surname Pilkington
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Meaning Of The Surname Pilkington
From Pileca’s Town
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Interesting
Facts About
Pilkington
Pilkington is a locational surname coming from any of the places so-called or similarly spelled across Britain. Locational surnames were traditionally given to someone who had moved away to a new area, whereby they were assigned the name of their original home as a surname to differentiate them from the other townspeople. The place name itself comes from the Old English first name ‘Pileca’ suffixed with ‘tun’ meaning settlement. The original buildings of Pilkington would have been owned by a man named Pileca. |
Pilkington Statistics
Pilkington is the number 1349 ranked surname in the United Kingdom.
According to our statistics around 7,795 share the surname Pilkington in the UK.
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