Etymology

Hesketh

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

Old Norse hestr
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The story

  1. Old Norse · derived fromhestr“stallion”
  2. English todayHesketh

Habitational surname from the village of Hesketh Bank, in Lancashire, from Old Norse hestr (“stallion”) + skeið (“racecourse”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.