Newark Family History
Newark Name Meaning
English: habitational name from one or more of the numerous places with this name such as Newark on Trent (Nottinghamshire) Newark in Peterborough (Northamptonshire) Newark Priory in Send (Surrey) The Newarke in Leicester (Leicestershire) and a lost Newark in Strood (Kent). Many of these placenames appear to have been named in the Middle English period and so derive from Middle English neue ‘new’ + werk ‘building fortification’ though some such as Newark on Trent were named in Old English (nīwe (ge)weorc) or Old Norse (nȳ verk).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022