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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Old English : From the end of town

Boy name variations

Townsend

Townsend

- 10% this year
Masculine
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Townley

Townley

0 % this year
Masculine
Rare
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Townes

Townes

+ 2% this year
Masculine
Rare
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Family name origins & meanings

  • English : topographic name for someone who lived in a village, as opposed to an outlying farm or hamlet, from Middle English toun (Old English tūn, which originally meant ‘fence’ and then ‘enclosure’, although the sense ‘settlement, village’ was already firmly established in the Old English period)

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