Tunstall
English
Etymology
From Old English tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”) + steall (“stable”).
Proper noun
Tunstall (countable and uncountable, plural Tunstalls)
- A town in Staffordshire, England, one of the Potteries (OS grid ref SJ864516).
- A habitational surname from Old English.
Statistics
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Tunstall is the 8527th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 3859 individuals. Tunstall is most common among Black/African American (51.05%) and White (42.65%) individuals.
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Tunstall”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
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