Frequency: (3608)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Northern English: regional name for someone from the former country of this name, originally named in Old English as Westmōringaland ‘territory of the people living west of the moors (i.e. the Pennines)’.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.




