mavericks of magic's Personal Name List

Beauchêne

Usage: French

Pronounced: BO-SHEHN

From French place names derived from beau "beautiful" and chêne "oak".

Beaulieu

Usage: French

Pronounced: BO-LYUU

From various French place names derived from beau "beautiful" and lieu "place".

Bellamy

Usage: French, English

From Old French bel ami meaning "beautiful friend".

Bellerose

Usage: French

Means "beautiful rose" in French.

Desrosiers

Usage: French

Means "from the rose bushes", from French rosier "rose bush". It probably referred to a person who lived close to, or cared for a rose garden.

Fan

Usage: Chinese

Other Scripts: 范(Chinese)

Pronounced: FAN

From Chinese 范 (fàn) meaning "bee".

Gallagher

Usage: Irish

Anglicized form of the Irish Ó Gallchobhair meaning "descendant of Gallchobhar".

Gibbs

Usage: English, Scottish

Pronounced: GIBZ(English)

Means "son of Gib".

Ionesco

Usage: Romanian

Variant of Ionescu. French-Romanian playwright Eugène Ionesco (1909-1994), born Ionescu, is a famous bearer of this surname.

Jöllenbeck

Usage: German

From the name of a village in western Germany, itself derived from the name of the Jölle, a small river, combined with Low German beck "stream".

Kidd

Usage: English

Pronounced: KID

From a nickname meaning "young goat, kid" in Middle English, of Old Norse origin.

Kirchner

Usage: German

Derived from Middle High German kirchenaere meaning "sexton".

Kjellsson

Usage: Swedish

Means "son of Kjell".

Lager

Usage: Swedish

Means "laurel" in Swedish.

Marinos

Usage: Greek

Other Scripts: Μαρίνος(Greek)

Derived from the given name Marinos.

Minett

Usage: English

From the medieval given name Minna.

Seymour 2

Usage: English

Pronounced: SEE-mawr

From an English place name, derived from Old English sæ "sea" and mere "lake".

Wentworth

Usage: English

Habitational name from places in Cambridgeshire and South Yorkshire called Wentworth, probably from the Old English byname Wintra meaning ‘winter’ + Old English worð ‘enclosure’. It is, however, also possible that the name referred to a settlement inhabited only in winter.