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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from a place in Derbyshire named Charlesworth, from an Old English personal name Ceafl (or from the Old English word ceafl ‘jaw’, here meaning ‘ravine’) + wor{dh} ‘enclosure’.

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