Etymology

Duckworth

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Today it means: A surname from Old English. Full definition →

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The story

Habitational surname from a minor place in Lancashire, from Old English dūce (“duck”) + worþ (“enclosure”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.