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Unsworth


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Origin Of The Surname Unsworth

Meaning Of The Surname Unsworth

From the Town with the Dog Compound

Interesting Facts About Unsworth

Unsworth 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 ‘hund’ meaning dog and ‘worth’ meaning an enclosure. Places with this name would have originally had a compound with dogs in.

Unsworth Statistics

Unsworth is the number 1182 ranked surname in the United Kingdom. According to our statistics around 8,290 share the surname Unsworth in the UK.

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