Stockport
English
Alternative forms
- (surname): Stopford
Etymology
From Old English stoc (“house, dwelling; place”) + port (“port; market town”).
Pronunciation
Audio (UK) (file) - IPA(key): /ˈstɒkpɔ(ɹ)t/
- Rhymes: -ɒkpɔ(ɹ)t
Proper noun
Stockport (countable and uncountable, plural Stockports)
- A market town and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SJ8990).
- A habitational surname from Old English.
Coordinate terms
Statistics
- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Stockport is the 30919th most common surname in England, belonging to 117 individuals.
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Stockport”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
- Forebears
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