Bingley

English

Etymology

From the Old English personal name Bynna -ing (“belonging to”) lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”) .

Proper noun

Bingley (countable and uncountable, plural Bingleys)

1. A market town and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE108389).
2. A habitational surname from Old English.
   • 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], Pride and Prejudice: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:

     Mr. Bingley was good-looking and gentlemanlike; he had a pleasant countenance […]

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Bingley is the 48256^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 438 individuals. Bingley is most common among White (53.2%) and Black/African American (36.99%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Bingley”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 162.

Anagrams

• Ingleby, beingly, belying