# Thorndike

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #65,565

## Definitions
1. A surname from Old English.
2. A town in Waldo County, Maine, United States.

## Etymology
Topographic surname for someone who lived by a sort of palisade made with thornbushes, from Old English þorn (“thornbush”) + dīc (“ditch; dike”).
The town was named after Israel Thorndike, a landowner.

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