Bothwell
English
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Etymology
[edit]From Middle English bothe (“booth”) + welle (“well, spring”).
Proper noun
[edit]Bothwell (countable and uncountable, plural Bothwells)
- A large village in South Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS7058).
- A small town in central Tasmania, Australia.
- A community in Chatham-Kent municipality, Ontario, Canada.
- An unincorporated community in Box Elder County, Utah, United States.
- A habitational surname from Middle English.
Statistics
[edit]- According to the 2010 United States Census, Bothwell is the 13330th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 2288 individuals. Bothwell is most common among White (83.48%) and Black/African American (10.8%) individuals.
Further reading
[edit]- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Bothwell”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 203.
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- English terms derived from Middle English
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Villages in South Lanarkshire, Scotland
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- en:Places in South Lanarkshire, Scotland
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- en:Towns in Tasmania
- en:Towns in Australia
- en:Places in Tasmania
- en:Places in Australia
- en:Villages in Ontario
- en:Villages in Canada
- en:Places in Ontario
- en:Places in Canada
- en:Unincorporated communities in Utah, USA
- en:Unincorporated communities in the United States
- en:Places in Utah, USA
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- English surnames
- English surnames from Middle English