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Origin Of The Surname Knox
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Meaning Of The Surname Knox
One Who Lived on a Hilltop
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Interesting
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Knox
Knox is a surname that could be either locational or topographical, and of either Old English or Gaelic origin. As a topographical surname it comes from the Gaelic ‘cnoc’ or the Old English ‘cnocc’ meaning a hilltop. It would have been given as a surname to a person who lived on a hilltop. However these old words also lent their meaning to town’s names, meaning that this surname could also be locational. 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. So a person with the locational for of this surname would have originally lived in a town called Knox or similarly spelled, and the town would have had its original settlements built on a hilltop. |
Knox Statistics
Knox is the number 1066 ranked surname in the United Kingdom.
According to our statistics around 9,502 share the surname Knox in the UK.
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