Hickinbottom is a surname. It is a corruption of Oakenbottom, a place in Bolton-le-Moors, probably influenced by the dialect word hickin or higgin, the mountain ash.Reaney, P.H. & Wilson, R.M. (1997), Oxford Dictionary of English Surnames, , page 231.
Notable people with the surname include:
David Hickinbottom (), British figure skater Ernest Hickinbottom (1865–1939), English footballer Gary Hickinbottom (born 1955), British judge Geoffrey Hickinbottom (born 1932), English cricketer Wilfred Hickinbottom (1896–1979), English chemist
See also Higginbottom
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