hermeline's Personal Name List

Means "son of Zahari".

Possibly means "Odin's gallows", referring to how Odin hanged himself from it to gain knowledge of the runes. In Norse mythology this is the name of the mythical tree that connects the Realms.

From Greek ξύλον (xylon) meaning "wood, timber" and ἀνδρός (andros) meaning "man". This surname was a Greek translation of German surnames of the same meaning.

Variant of Willoughby.

Means "a light, gentle breeze", or figuratively, "an unruly strand of hair". It is a diminutive of the Polish word wicher, "strong wind".

Variant of Wechsler.

Habitational name for a person from the villages Hoog en Laaghalen in the Dutch province of Drenthe or Halen near Hasselt in Belgian Limburg. Famous bearers include Dutch-born American musicians Eddie Van Halen (1955-2020) and his brother Alex Van Halen (1953-) of the rock band Van Halen. Note, the original surname in Dutch is van Halen (spelled with a lower-case V).

From the given name Tedros.

From a medieval nickname for a dandyish (showy) or vain man, from Middle English scheldrake, the male of a type of duck with brightly-coloured plumage (itself from the East Anglian dialect term scheld "variegated" combined with drake "male duck").

Means "Syrian" or "Damascene", derived from Arabic الشام (ash-Sham) referring to both Syria and the Syrian city of Damascus.

Combination of German Sense, meaning "scythe", and Brenner meaning "burner".

A notable bearer is Representative Jim Sensenbrenner.

The Scriblerus Club was an informal association of authors, based in London, that came together in the early 18th century. The nucleus of the club included the satirists Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope. Working collaboratively, the group created the persona of Martinus Scriblerus, through whose writings they accomplished their satirical aims.

Possibly deriving from Italian words scorno meaning shame, and vacca meaning cow. Sicilian variant of Scornavacca.

From the given name Reuben.

Anglicized form of Remich, Römmich and Remic.

Variant of Quinney ??

Diminutive form of Page, which is of Old French origin, and an occupational name for a young servant, a personal attendant in a noble's house, from the Old French, Middle English "page", ultimately deriving from the Greek "paidion", a boy, child. Padgett itself contains the intrusive "-d-", due to dialectal influences, and the diminutive suffix "-ett"; hence, "little page".

Not to be confused with the similarly spelled Odelín, which is Spanish rather than French, though they could have similar origins in name.

Derived from an Alemannic diminutive of the given names Albrecht and Albert.

Of debated origin and meaning; theories include an Anglicized form of Oberle.

From the given name Na'im.

Derived from Hebrew מרגלית (margalit) meaning "pearl".

Topographic name for someone who lived near a meadow or a patch of arable land (see Layman).

English (Cornwall and Devon) variant of Luxton.

The surname "Lucero" was derived from English conquerers who came from England, most likely someone who worked for a king or queen. The term Lucero refers to a "star" or "light carrier" when the English traveled to Spain, the Spanish people gave them the name "Lucero" but earlier was spelled with an "s or Lusero".

Patronymic of Hille, a pet form of given names containing the element hild "strife, battle".

Derived from the Old German given name Williric.

Derived from the native Gaelic O'Gruagain Sept that was initially located in County Roscommon but which became widely dispersed. The name is derived from a Gaelic word meaning 'fierceness'.

A location outside of Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified according to the gospels of Matthew, Mark, and John. It means "place of the skull" and is also known as Calvary.

Occupational name for an officer of justice, Italian giudice " judge" (Latin iudex, from ius "law" + dicere "to say"). In some cases it may have been applied as a nickname for a solemn and authoritative person thought to behave like a judge.

Means "full, laden" in Greek, supposedly referring to a head full of knowledge. One of the earliest recorded bearers was Georgios Gemistos Plethon, a Greek scholar of the late Byzantine era. He chose the pseudonym Plethon (from πλῆθος (plethos) "multitude, great number", from πλήθω (pletho) "to fill") partly in reference to the meaning of his surname.

The Tagalog word for "Pharaoh".

Variant of Edo.

From the Old English personal name Ella, from the word oelf meaning "elf" or from the Old English alor/elre, meaning "alder tree." The name in full would mean "alder tree by a ford" or "Ella who lives by a ford".

From Surname Database and Guild of One-Name Studies.

Name is said to have originated in Cheshire and Lancashire. A variant of Etches, possibly a variant of Edge , with post-medieval excrescent -s and devoicing of the consonant, or an altered pronunciation of the nickname Edgoose (Middle English Edcus, early modern English Etcus). However, there is no clear evidence for either hypothesis.

The earliest record of this surname is in Church Minshull, Cheshire, England, in 1566, when John, a son of Thomas Eachus, was baptized. Peter Eachus married Margaret Pownall in Church Minshull on 21 April 1594.

From the given name Deressa.

Anglicized form of Ó Dabhoireann

Anglicized form of Irish Ó Corraidhín meaning "descendant of Corraidhín".

Means "crowned." This was possibly a nickname for one resembling a clergyman who has received the tonsure.

Alsatian City of Colmar.

From the given name Celedonio.

Derived from the feminine name Cécile.

English surname, a variant of the English surname Calverley, itself derived from the Old English calf "calf" and leag "field, clearing".

English: habitational name from either of two places: Carrow in Norfolk or Carraw in Northumberland. The first is thought to be named from Old English carr ‘rock’ (a Celtic loan word) + hoh ‘spur of a hill’, while the last may be named either from an Old British plural of carr, or from carr + Old English raw ‘row’. Possibly in some cases a reduced form of the Cornish surname Nancarrow.

Americanized form of German Gardein, itself a Germanized spelling of French Jardin. It could also denote someone from the village and civil parish of Carden in Cheshire, England.

A character in the classic novel The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. In the novel, Caderousse is a tailor and inkeeper who aids in the arrest of Dantès.

Either originating from the village Busby in historic county East Renfrewshire in Scotland, or Great Busby in Yorkshire. The place name is likely derived from the Norman buki, "shrub". See also Busby.

Derived from the feminine given name Beile or Bayla; the given names themselves are Yiddish forms of English Bella. This was the real surname of the Russian-American composer, songwriter and lyricist Irving Berlin (1888-1989), who was born Israel Isidore Beilin.

Derived from the Middle English 'bail(l)i', a development of the Old French 'baillis'. In Scotland the word survives as 'bailie', the title of a chief magistrate for a part of a county or barony. The word survives in England as 'bailiff', an officer who serves writs and summonses for the court.

Habitational name, probably an altered form of Baxenden, a place near Accrington, which is named with an unattested Old English word bæcstān meaning "bakestone" (a flat stone on which bread was baked) + denu meaning "valley". Middle English dale was sometimes substituted for Old English denu in northern place names.

An ancient city of southwest Palestine on the Mediterranean Sea. Inhabited as early as the third millennium bc, it was a seat of worship for the goddess Astarte.

From a diminutive of the given name Abdul, as well as any of numerous names beginning with this element.