The wentworth Surname
wentworth Name Meaning and History
English: habitational name from places in Cambridgeshire and South
Yorkshire called Wentworth, probably from the Old English byname
Wintra meaning ‘winter’ + Old English worð
‘enclosure’. It is, however, also possible that the name referred to a
settlement inhabited only in winter. Compare Winterbottom.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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