The story
- Old English · derived from*popel“pebble”
- English todayPoppleton
Habitational surname from the villages of Nether and Upper Poppleton, in North Yorkshire, from Old English *popel (“pebble”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Words from the same roots
Old English*popel all →
Popplewell
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.