# Newsome

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #50,105

## Definitions
1. A surname.

## Etymology
After one or more places so named in Durham, Lancashire, Northumberland, and Yorkshire, from Old English (æt þǣm) nīwe hūsum (“(at the) new houses”).

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/newsome