Some meanings of Surnames
Adams Alexander Anderson Archer Armson Armstrong Arnold Atkins Austin Bacon Baker Balls Barks Barnes
Barnstable Beaumont Beeson Bellamy Berry Betts Bick Bissel Blackman Bland Braithwaite Brand Briars Brooks Brotherhood Brown Buckle Burgess Burnaby Burnage Burrows Calcraft Chance Chapman Charetie Charlton Chase Chester Clark Clay Cole Cooke Cragg Cranis Cresswell Dakin Davis Docherty Dowsett Drew Ecott
Efford Everett Etchells Fawkes Ferneaux Fillery
Fillingham Flatters Flewett Flint Fotheringham Fowkes Freeman Gaylarde Geary Gent Gibbins Gilbert Giles Gittins Godfrey
Harper Hart Harwood Hayes Head Heaven Hilbert High & Hill Hoare Hond Horne Hurley Jones Job/Jupp Kay Kelly Kemp Kimber Leach Lees Lovell Lovett Marchant Marriot Martin Mawer Nye Palmer Pedder Pinder Pollard Rider/Ryder Rowe Rudd Scrivens Sibley Talbot
Thorp Thurman Wagstaffe |
Red, found in Domesday Book Defender of men Son of Andrew Bowman Son of Ermin Strong in the arm, well-known border name. Old Germanic, eagle-power Form of Adkin, a pet form of Adam Form of Augustine, venerable Nickname for a pork butcher Old English 'baecere' baker Middle English, a bare patch or white streak, Old English round hill, knoll Bark+er, he stripped bark from trees for tanning. Middle English 'bark' to tan, a tanner Domesday Book, A young man of a prominent family, Old English 'beorn', warrior. Also resident or employed at the barns. Post for mooring warships or from the town in Devon From one of 5 places in Normandy named Beaumont Where the bent-grass grew Fair friend ME: beri, biri, buri. of a manor-house surname must have meant 'servant of a manor-house' Usually pet form of Beatrice, also of Bertram Beekeeper Form of Bushell, one who measured out corn black-haired/dark man windy/stormy place broad clearing, meadow sword, torch, firebrand Dweller amongst the brambles Dweller at the brook Fellow member of a guild or corporation Brown haired, or complexion Buckle maker Citizen, freeman, inhabitant of a borough Farm by a spring Brown hedge Dweller by the hill Dweller at the cold croft Old French, 'cheance', fortune, accident, luck, perhaps used for a gambler Merchant, trader form of Charity, almsgiving, hospitality, refuge Place of free-peasants/villeins Unenclosed hunting ground, hunter Roman site A man in a religious order, clergyman, later scholar, penman Dweller on the clay, worker in a claypit Coal-black, swarthy Seller of cooked meats Dweller by the steep rugged rocks Possibly long-legged Dweller by the watercress stream Little David Son of Davy The stern Sweet to the ear Ghost, phantom 'Ecott' but it very possibly derives Greek defender of men from Eastcott, Eastcourt, Escot, Estcourt: Robert atte Estcote lived at the east cottage, now Eastcourt, near Estcot's Fm. in East Grinstead (Sussex). A ford used at low tide From Old German wild boar-hard English: A Habitation name from OE: ecels piece of land added to an estate Old German, Falcon Dweller in the ferny hollow English: nickname from ANF fi(t)z le rei son of the king. Possibly a nickname for an illegitimate son of a monarch, but more likely a humorous nickname for one who gave himself airs and graces, acting as if of royal blood. Homestead of Fygla's gang. Old English this Anglo-Saxon had a name related to fowl , bird. Dwellers of level ground Old German, glory-strong. Old English, hard as rock Island for foddering/grazing Folk, people Free born man Galliard, lively, brisk, full of high spirits. Changeable, giddy Noble in conduct, courteous Gift-friend Pledge-, or hostage-bright French, kid; 6th century saint; associated with cripples, beggars, hunted creatures Dusky, swarthy God-peace 1. English: from OE: widu, wudu, wood or from German personal name Wido, of uncertain origin 2. English: occupational name for a guide, OF: gui. to guide. 3. Jewish: of unknown origin Variations Guy, G(u)ye, Guitte, Wido, Why(e), Wye, Guyon, Wyon, Wi, Why, Harp-maker/player Stag Grey/hares/stoneheap wood Dweller by brushwood Dweller by the promontory or hill, or near the source of a stream or head of the valley Evan, Welsh form of John Ilbert, battle glorious Dweller on the height or hill Grey haired Hand, may refer to some peculiarity of the hand, or skill in its use Residence near a spur or tongue of land or a bend Wood/clearing in a Hurn from Johanins - Hebrew, Jehovah has favoured From Hebrew, hated, persecuted Old Norse Jackdaw, also living or working at a wharf or quay Cornish, wood or grove Old English warrior. Middle English athlete, wrestler Old English to comb Leech, physician Dweller by the wood or clearing Wolf Ofr: louet. 'wolf-cub' Merchant trader Dimutive of Mary - wished for child From Mars the god of war A mower, may also mean at the moor Resident of low lying land Pilgrim to the holy land One who carries goods for sale, a pedlar An officer of the manor who impounded stray beasts Middle English, to clip Knight, mounted warrior Dweller in a row of houses Red breast One who writes and copies books The priestess who uttered the ancient chronicals Robbers who blacked their faces to avoid recognition also wooden billet hung round the neck of animals to stop them straying Outlying dairy farm Thors protection A beadle |
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