Charlie1977's Personal Name List

Anglicized form of German Jäger.

Means "son of Xanthos".

From an English surname that was from a place name meaning "riverbank with a windlass" in Old English (a windlass is a lifting apparatus). This has been the surname of the royal family of the United Kingdom since 1917.

Means "person from Wilberfoss", Yorkshire ("Wilburh's ditch"). This is borne by Wilberforce University, a university in Xenia, Ohio, USA, founded in 1856 and named in honour of the British philanthropist and anti-slavery campaigner William Wilberforce (1759-1833). A fictional bearer of the surname is Mrs Wilberforce, the canny little old lady whose house is commandeered by crooks in the film 'The Ladykillers' (1955).

Variant of Westcott.

Topographic name or a habitational name from a lost or unidentified place.

From Old English wer "weir, dam" and wic "village, town". This is the name of a town in England.

Originally indicated a person who came from the English city of Wakefield, derived from Old English wacu "wake, vigil" and feld "field".

Means "dweller at the edge of the woods", from Old English under and wudu.

Occupational name for a steelworker, from Old English stele meaning "steel".

From an Old Norse nickname or byname derived from sparkr meaning "sprightly".

Variant of Sealy.

Means "son of Robin".

From the Jèrriais surname Poingdestre meaning "right fist".

From a place name meaning "oak clearing" in Old English. It was borne by American sharpshooter Annie Oakley (1860-1926).

Transferred use of the surname Maxfield.

From a surname that was derived from a place name meaning "remnants of a lake" in Old English. A famous bearer of the surname was the English playwright Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593).

Anglicized form of Mac Shuibhne.

Variant of McMillan.

Variant of McLeod.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline.

Means (i) "person from Leire", Leicestershire ("place on the river Leire", a river-name that may also be the ancestor of Leicestershire); or (ii) "person from Lear", any of several variously spelled places in northern France with a name based on Germanic lār "clearing". British artist and poet Edward Lear (1812-1888) was a bearer of this surname.

From the name of a city in northwestern England derived from Middle English Loncastre, itself from Lon referring to an ancient Roman fort on the River Lune combined with Old English ceaster meaning "city, town".

From a surname that was derived from the Old English given names Cyneweard or Cyneheard.

From a Scottish and English surname that was derived from Old English hamel "crooked, mutilated" and dun "hill". The surname was originally taken from the name of a town in Leicestershire, England (which no longer exists). A famous bearer of the surname was Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804), a founding father of the United States who was killed in a duel with Aaron Burr.

From an English surname meaning "son of William", formed using the Anglo-Norman French prefix fitz-, derived from Latin filius "son". This is the given name of Mr. Darcy, a character in Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice (1813).

Means "son of Simon 1" in Anglo-Norman French.

Means "son of Gerald" in Anglo-Norman French. It was brought to Ireland with William the Conqueror. A famous bearer was Ella Fitzgerald (1917-1996), an American jazz singer.

Occupational name meaning "keeper of falcons", from Middle English and Scots faulcon, from Late Latin falco, of Germanic origin.

Possibly derived from the German Falke, meaning "falcon."

From various Scottish place names that are derived from Gaelic drumainn, a derivative of druim meaning "ridge".

Anglicized form of Irish Ó Díomasaigh meaning "descendant of Díomasach", a given name meaning "proud".

From a surname that was derived from the name of an English town, itself meaning "cross town" in Old Norse.

Transferred use of the surname Corbett.

Anglicized form of Irish Ó Conaire, which means "descendant of Conaire". Conaire is a nickname meaning "hound keeper".

Anglicized form of Ó Cathail.

Originally denoted a person who lived near a bridge, or who worked as a bridgekeeper, derived from Middle English brigge, Old English brycg.

From any of the many places in England called Bolton, derived from Old English bold "house" and tun "enclosure".

BLACKMORE, an English name, has two possible beginnings:

The FIRST: It is an obvious use of a descriptive term that crystallized from a nickname into an acceptable family name. Many such names as BLACKMORE, BLACK, BLAKEMAN, BLACMAN, AND BLACKMAN, testify to the darker tone of some of our forbearers countenances. The term has nothing to do with race or nationalistic characteristics, but possibly began as a nickname for a particular individual as "BLACK a' Moor" or black as a Moor. Stephen le Blac (to distinguish him from Stephen le Blane) is now Blake: the name "Nutbrown" was an early name, existing at least until 1630. Our Browns began in the same way.

The SECOND: Many names had their beginning because a person lived in a location easy to describe and thus distinguished the person from another of the same name living elsewhere. For example, Steven atte BLACKMOOR resided close to the murky and gloomy heath or moor.

Derived from the words blæc "black" or blac "pale, shining, white" and ford "river crossing"

Variant of Banner.

From the name of the village of Alsop en la Dale in Derbyshire, England. It means "Ælli's valley" in Old English.