Birkenshaw

See also: birkenshaw

English

Alternative forms

• (surname): Birkinshaw, Burkinshaw

Etymology

From Old English birċen (“birchen, made of birch”) + sċeaga (“copse, thicket, shaw”).

Proper noun

Birkenshaw (countable and uncountable, plural Birkenshaws)

1. A village in North Lanarkshire, Scotland (OS grid ref NS692586).
2. A village in the Kirklees borough, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE203279).
3. A surname from Old English.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Birkenshaw is the 19989^th most common surname in England, belonging to 227 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Birkenshaw”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 163.