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Collingwood
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Origin Of The Surname Collingwood
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Meaning Of The Surname Collingwood
From the Disputed Wood
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Interesting
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Collingwood
Collingwood is locational surname coming from a place called Callingwood. 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 French word ‘calange’ meaning disputed. The name would have been given to a wood whose ownership was being argued over. |
Collingwood Statistics
Collingwood is the number 1696 ranked surname in the United Kingdom.
According to our statistics around 6,262 share the surname Collingwood in the UK.
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