Stockport

English

Etymology

From Old English stoc (“house, dwelling; place”) + port (“port; market town”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈstɒkpɔːt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈstɑkpɔɹt/

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• Rhymes: -ɒkpɔː(ɹ)t

Proper noun

Stockport (countable and uncountable, plural Stockports)

1. A market town and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SJ8990).
2. A habitational surname from Old English.
3. A town in Columbia County, New York.
4. A village in Morgan County, Ohio.
5. A town in South Australia.
6. A city in Van Buren County, Iowa
7. An unincorporated community in Delaware County, Indiana.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Stockport is the 30919^th most common surname in England, belonging to 117 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Stockport”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
• Forebears