isla_may's Personal Name List

Derived from the given name Walter.

Originally indicated a person who was a physician, from the medieval practice of using leeches to bleed people of ills.

Means "son of Laurence 1".

Derived from Old English hlaw "hill".

Americanized form of Larsson or Larsen.

Topographic name for someone who lived by a stream, Old English lacu, or a habitational name from a place named with this word, for example in Wiltshire and Devon. Modern English lake (Middle English lake) is only distantly related, if at all; it comes via Old French from Latin lacus. This meaning, which ousted the native sense, came too late to be found as a place name element, but may lie behind some examples of the surname.

Occupational name for someone who put the metal hoops around wooden barrels.

Means "son of Harry".

Occupational name for a fuller, a person who thickened and cleaned coarse cloth by pounding it. It is derived via Middle English from Latin fullo.

From Chinese 陈 (chén) meaning "exhibit, display, old, ancient" and also referring to the former state of Chen, which existed in what is now Henan province from the 11th to 5th centuries BC.

English cognate of Abate.