Släkthistoria för Plimsoll
Plimsoll Vad efternamn betyder
uncertain; perhaps a locative name from Plounévézel in Finistère Brittany. The place-name may be either Breton for ‘new village parish’ with a French diminutive suffix or a dissimilated form of Breton *Plou-nevezenn ‘village at newly-cleared land’. On the other hand the first element of the name resembles that in Plymouth Plymstock and others in Devon but no local place-name of exactly this form has been found whilst the connection with Protestant immigrants is assured.
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
