Hambleton

English

Etymology

From Old English hamel (“crooked (hill)”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Proper noun

Hambleton (countable and uncountable, plural Hambletons)

1. (uncountable) A place in England:
   1. A former local government district in North Yorkshire, created 1 April 1974 and abolished 1 April 2023.
   2. A village and civil parish in Wyre district, Lancashire (OS grid ref SD3742).
   3. A hamlet in Bolton Abbey parish, North Yorkshire, previously in Craven district (OS grid ref SE0553).
   4. A village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, previously in Selby district (OS grid ref SE5530).
   5. A hamlet in Cold Kirby parish, previously in Ryedale district and Kilburn High and Low parish, previously in Hambleton district, North Yorkshire (OS grid ref SE5283).
   6. A village and civil parish on a peninsula in Rutland Water, Rutland (OS grid ref SK9007). The village is also known as Upper Hambleton, the name used on OS maps.
2. A small town in Tucker County, West Virginia, United States.
3. (countable) A habitational surname from Old English.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Hambleton is the 17229^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1644 individuals. Hambleton is most common among White (92.27%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Hambleton”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 120.