Given name & surname · also Middle English
Plympton
“growing with plum trees”
Plympton is a surname from Middle English, ultimately from Old English.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Plympton goes back to a word meaning “growing with plum trees.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Plympton comes from Middle English, and ultimately from Old English.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Plympton’s family of names
In English usage, Plympton as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with PLUMPTON. In English usage, Plympton as a surname has a related form in PLIMPTON.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
Similar names
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“rock, hill”
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“river bend”
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“beam, tree”
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“enclosure; settlement, town”
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