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Name Wentworth
Type Surname (from location)
Usage English
Edit Status Statusnot set

Meaning & History

Habitational name from places in Cambridgeshire and South Yorkshire called Wentworth, probably from the Old English byname WINTRA meaning ‘winter’ + Old English worð ‘enclosure’. It is, however, also possible that the name referred to a settlement inhabited only in winter.
Added 3/19/2009 by LMS