Tunstall

English

Etymology

From Old English tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”) + steall (“stable”).

Proper noun

Tunstall (countable and uncountable, plural Tunstalls)

1. A number of places in England:
   1. A small village in Roos parish, East Riding of Yorkshire (OS grid ref TA3032).
   2. A village and civil parish south of Sittingbourne, Swale district, Kent (OS grid ref TQ8961).
   3. A small village and civil parish in Lancaster district, Lancashire (OS grid ref SD6073).
   4. A small village in Halvergate parish, Broadland district, Norfolk (OS grid ref TG4108).
   5. A hamlet in Newby parish, North Yorkshire, previously in Hambleton district (OS grid ref NZ5212).
   6. A village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, previously in Richmondshire district (OS grid ref SE2195).
   7. A hamlet in Adbaston parish, Stafford borough, Staffordshire (OS grid ref SJ7727).
   8. A town in the City of Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, one of the Potteries (OS grid ref SJ864516).
   9. A village and civil parish in East Suffolk district, Suffolk (OS grid ref TM3655).
   10. A suburban village between Ryhope and New Silksworth, Metropolitan Borough of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear (OS grid ref NZ3953).
2. A locality in the Rural Municipality of Enterprise, No. 142, Saskatchewan, Canada.
3. An unincorporated community in New Kent County, Virginia, United States.
4. A habitational surname from Old English.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Tunstall is the 8527^th 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.

References

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Tunstall”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.