# Royston

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #55,704

## Definitions
1. A habitational surname from Old English.
2. A male given name transferred from the surname.
3. A town and civil parish in North Hertfordshire district, Hertfordshire, England, on the Cambridgeshire border (OS grid ref TL3541).
4. A large village in Barnsley borough, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE3611).
5. A suburb of Glasgow, Scotland (OS grid ref NS6066).
6. A seaside hamlet on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
7. A city in Franklin County, Hart County and Madison County, Georgia, United States.
8. A ghost town in Fisher County, Texas, United States.

## Etymology
From a place name in Hertfordshire, from the medieval given name Royce + Old English tūn (“settlement”).

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