Cawthorne or Cawthorn is a toponymic surname related to the village of Cawthorne in South Yorkshire, England,[1] or alternatively the village of Cawthorn in North Yorkshire, England.[2] It also means a region of Yorkshire where there are many thorned plants and the climate is cold. The linguistic origin of the surname is the Old English (Anglo-Saxon) cald-thorne meaning "cold (or exposed) thorn-tree".[3]

Other documented variants of this surname include Cawthon, Corthorn and Cawthron.[1]

People named Cawthorne or Cawthorn include:

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  1. ^ a b Bardsley, Charles W. E. (1901). A dictionary of English and Welsh surnames. Henry Frowde. p. 166. ISBN 978-5-87114-401-5.
  2. ^ "Cawthorne Name Meaning & Cawthorne Family History". Ancestry.com. Retrieved 2019-10-08.
  3. ^ Brown, Samuel L. (1967). Surnames are the Fossils of Speech. p. 52.