Drown Boy Pond
lake or loch · Bracknell Forest
Old EnglishSurmised
Suggested2 sources · name elements
This name is a descriptive place name, likely referring to a pond where a boy drowned. It is a cautionary or memorial name.
Word origins
- Drown
- Old EnglishTo die or kill by suffocation in water.(from druncnian "to drown")
- Boy
- Old EnglishA male child.(from bōia "boy")
- Pond
- Old EnglishA small body of still water.(from pynd "pond")