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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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wentworth Family Facts

Distribution of wentworth Families in the US in 1920
Number of wentworth families
 208-413
 70-207		 1-69
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