Given name & surname

Plowden

Plowden is a surname from Old English.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Plowden comes from Old English.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Old English plega + denu.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Similar names

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Old English

Playden

“game”

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Old English

Outen

“above”

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Old English

Dowden

“to avail, serve”

No U.S. birth series

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Old English

Ovenden

“valley”

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Old English

Plympton

“growing with plum trees”

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Old English

Longden

“long”

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Old English

Poston

“postern”

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75% boys · 25% girls

Spanish

Ponton

“hill” · “enclosure; settlement, town”

No U.S. birth series

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