audraelizabeth's Personal Name List

From an Old Slavic word meaning "winter". This may have been a nickname for a person with a chilly personality.

Originally given to a person who dwelt near a sheep enclosure, from Middle English wether "sheep" and spong "strip of land".

Derived from Russian волк (volk) meaning "wolf".

From Spanish vega meaning "meadow, plain", of Basque origin.

Originally denoted a person from Verly, France, itself derived from the Roman name Virilius.

Derived from the given name Simon 1.

Habitational name from the city in Wiltshire, the Roman name of which was Sorviodunum (of British origin). In the Old English period the second element (from Celtic dun ‘fortress’) was dropped and Sorvio- (of unexplained meaning) became Searo- in Old English as the result of folk etymological association with Old English searu ‘armor’; to this an explanatory burh ‘fortress’, ‘manor’, ‘town’ was added. The city is recorded in the Domesday Book as Sarisberie; the change of -r- to -l- is the result of later dissimilation. Also a habitational name from Salesbury in Lancashire, so named from Old English salh ‘willow’ + burh ‘fortress’, ‘manor’.

From Middle High German rot "red" and schilt "shield", or Yiddish רויט (roit) and שילד (shild). The famous Rothschild family of bankers took their name from a house with a red shield on it.

name for any of numerous places named rosenthal or rosendahl. means " rose valley"

Habitational name for someone who lived at a house distinguished by the sign of a rosebush, Middle High German rōsenboum.

Variant of Rojo.

Means "son of Robin".

Spanish variant of Rey 1.

Derived from Welsh ap Rhys, which means "son of Rhys".

From middle German naht meaning "night".

Variant of Malone.

Means "the red", from Old French ros "red". This was a nickname for a person with red hair.

Means "the street" in French.

From the Old English ‘lang’, meaning long, and ‘treow’, meaning tree. The name of several settlements across England.

Variant of Forester.

Means "beautiful child" in Middle English.

From the given name Dragomir.

English (of Norman origin) habitational name, with fused French preposition d(e), for someone from Hauterive in Orne, France, named from Old French haute rive ‘high bank’ (Latin alta ripa).

The derivation of this surname is from the Old English pre 7th Century "Crawa", a crow, with "sceaga" a grove, thus "Crowswood". The earliest recording of this placename is in the Lancashire Inquests of 1324 and appears as "Croweshagh".

Variant of Clark.

From any of the various places of this name, derived from Old English bean meaning "bean" and croft meaning "small enclosed field".

From the name of various English towns, derived from Old English æppel "apple" and Old Norse býr "farm, settlement".

Derived from the Old French and Middle English personal name Amys, Amice, which is either directly from Latin amicus ‘friend’, used as a personal name, or via a Late Latin derivative of this, Amicius.

From the given name Albrecht.

Derived from the given name Edgar.