# Hickinbottom

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**Hickinbottom** is a surname. It is a corruption of Oakenbottom, a place in [Bolton-le-Moors](/source/Bolton-le-Moors), probably influenced by the dialect word *hickin* or *higgin*, the [mountain ash](/source/Mountain_ash).[1]

Notable people with the surname include:

- [David Hickinbottom](/source/David_Hickinbottom) (), British figure skater
- [Ernest Hickinbottom](/source/Ernest_Hickinbottom) (1865–1939), English footballer
- [Gary Hickinbottom](/source/Gary_Hickinbottom) (born 1955), British judge
- [Geoffrey Hickinbottom](/source/Geoffrey_Hickinbottom) (born 1932), English cricketer
- [Wilfred Hickinbottom](/source/Wilfred_Hickinbottom) (1896–1979), English chemist

## See also

- [Higginbottom](/source/Higginbottom)

## References

1. Reaney, P.H. & Wilson, R.M. (1997), Oxford Dictionary of English Surnames, ISBN 0-19-860092-5, page 231.

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