Kira_Kriv's Personal Name List

Indicated a person who lived near an abbey or worked in an abbey, from Middle English abbeye.

From the name of a town in Derbyshire, derived from Old English meaning "Abba's island".

Mostly Scottish surname meaning "at the oak ford".

Derived from the given name Edgar.

From a place name: either Annesley in Nottinghamshire or Ansley in Warwickshire. The place names themselves derive from Old English anne "alone, solitary" or ansetl "hermitage" and leah "woodland, clearing".

Habitational name for a person from the village of Ainsworth near Manchester, itself from the Old English given name Ægen and worþ meaning "enclosure".

From a Scottish place name, itself derived from alla "wild" and mhagh "field".

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

Extremely common variant of Applegarth, in which the less familiar final element has been assimilated to the northern Middle English word gate meaning "road" or to modern English gate.

From the name of several English towns, meaning "orchard" in Old English (a compound of æppel "apple" and tun "enclosure, yard").

Occupational name for one who practiced archery, from Latin arcus "bow" (via Old French).

Occupational name meaning "chest maker", from Middle English arc meaning "chest, coffer" and wyrhta meaning "maker, craftsman".

Means "hermitage", indicating a person who lived near one, from Middle English ermite "hermit" and stede "place".

From the name of a town in Cambridgeshire, originally meaning "Earna's settlement" in Old English (Earna being a person's nickname meaning "eagle").

Variant of Atteberry.

Variant of Atteberry.

From Old English æsc meaning "ash tree", indicating a person who lived near ash trees.

Altered form of English Ashcroft.

English (chiefly Lancashire) topographic name from Middle English asche ‘ash tree’ + croft ‘enclosure’, or a habitational name from a minor place named with these elements.

Denoted a person from one of the towns in England that bear this name, itself derived from Old English æsc "ash tree" and tun "enclosure, yard, town".

From an English place name meaning "ash enclosure" in Old English.

Means "at the way", originally denoting someone who lived close to a road.

Means "dweller at the fortified town" from Middle English at and burh "fortified place".

Variant of Atteberry.

Variant of Atwater.

Variant of Atwood.

From Middle English meaning "dweller at the water".

From Middle English meaning "dweller at the wood".

Variant of Atteberry.

From Middle English eir meaning "heir".

Derived from the given name Ealhhere.

Indicated a person from the town of Ayr in Scotland. The town was named for the river that flows through it, itself derived from an Indo-European root meaning "water".

Anglicized form of Mac an Baird.

From various place names that were derived from Gaelic baile "village" and pòr "pasture, crop, cropland".

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

Variant of Bannister.

From Norman French banastre meaning "basket". This was originally a name for a maker of baskets.

Derived from a number of English place names that variously mean "barley hill", "barn hill", "boar clearing" or "barley clearing".

Denoted a person who worked or lived in a barn. The word barn is derived from Old English bere "barley" and ærn "dwelling".

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

From an English place name meaning "Becca's homestead" in Old English (with Becca being a masculine byname meaning "pickaxe"). A famous bearer is retired English soccer player David Beckham (1975-).

From the name of two villages in England, one in Lincolnshire and one in Nottinghamshire.

From Middle English belle meaning "bell". It originated as a nickname for a person who lived near the town bell, or who had a job as a bell-ringer.

Derived from the given name Bel, a medieval short form of Isabel.

Means "beautiful rose" in French.

French and English form of Belmonte.

From the English town name Benington, which can mean either "settlement belonging to Beonna's people" or "settlement by the River Beane".

Derived from Middle English beste meaning "beast", an occupational name for a keeper of animals or a nickname for someone who acted like a beast. A famous bearer of this surname was soccer legend George Best (1946-2005).

Means simply "bishop", ultimately from Greek ἐπίσκοπος (episkopos) meaning "overseer". It probably originally referred to a person who served a bishop.

Variant of Blackburn.

From the name of a city in Lancashire, meaning "black stream" in Old English.

From an English place name meaning "black wood".

From name of various English places, derived from Old English blæc "black" and leah "woodland, clearing".

Variant of Blakeley.

Variant of Blakesley.

From the name of a town in Northamptonshire, itself meaning "Blæcwulf's meadow" in Old English. Blæcwulf is a byname meaning "black wolf".

Derived from the given name Blanchard.

From a diminutive of the name Blanc.

Anglicized form of Blanchet or Blanchette.

Originally indicated someone from the town of Blidworth in Nottinghamshire, which was derived from the Old English byname Blīþa (meaning "happy, blithe") combined with worð "enclosure".

From a nickname for a person with blue eyes or blue clothing.

From Old English meaning "happy, joyous, blithe".

From Old French bonne heure meaning "good time" or "lucky".

French form of Bonner.

From the Old German given name Burkhard.

Diminutive form of Borde.

Variant of Bureau.

There are three possible sources of this surname, the first being that it is a metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of bows, a vital trade in medieval times before the invention of gunpowder, and a derivative of the Old English boga "bow", from bugan "to bend".

The surname may also be topographic for someone living near a bridge, the word boga having acquired the sense "arch", as in the supposed resemblance of the arch to a drawn bow. For example, Richard atte Bowe (1306 Calendar of Letter Books in the City of London).

Lastly, Bowe, being chiefly the Irish variant, is the anglicized form of the Gaelic O'Buadhaigh, a descendant of Buadhach a personal name meaning victorious.

From a place name, which is derived from Old English meaning "settlement by a steep path".

From an English place name place name meaning "Bracca's town" in Old English.

From a place name derived from Cornish bre "hill".

Originally indicated someone from Brackenrig in Lanarkshire, derived from northern Middle English braken meaning "bracken" (via Old Norse brækni) and rigg meaning "ridge" (via Old Norse hryggr).

Variant of Breckenridge.

From an English place name, derived from brer "briar" and leah "woodland, clearing".

From the name of the city of Bristol, originally Brycgstow in Old English, meaning "the site of the bridge".

From a place name derived from Old English brad "broad" and beonet "bent grass".

Means "embroiderer" in French.

Denoted a person who lived near a brook, a word derived from Old English broc.

Variant of Brook.

From various English place names derived from Old English ceald "cold" and wille "spring, stream, well".

From a Gaelic nickname cam beul meaning "wry or crooked mouth". The surname was later represented in Latin documents as de bello campo meaning "of the fair field".

Originally a name for someone from Cantrell in Devon, from an unknown first element and Old English hyll meaning "hill".

From the occupation, derived from Middle English carpentier (ultimately from Latin carpentarius meaning "carriage maker").

Occupational name indicating one who made carts.

Occupational surname for a carver, from Middle English kerve "cut".

From Norman French casse meaning "box, case", ultimately from Latin capsa. This was an occupational name for a box maker.

From Middle English castel meaning "castle", from Late Latin castellum, originally indicating a person who lived near a castle.

From a place name meaning "cold field", from Old English ceald "cold" and feld "pasture, field".

Comes from the Irish Gaelic Mac Cathmhaoil, which was Anglicized to McCawell and then morphed into Caulfield. Mac Cathmhaoil comes from a word meaning "chieftan".

Means "Czech". The name was used to differentiate a native of Bohemia from the natives of Silesia, Moravia and other regions that are now part of the Czech Republic.

From the name of English towns meaning "settlement belonging to Chad" in Old English.

Occupational name for one who looked after the inner rooms of a mansion, from Norman French chambrelain.

From Old French chambre meaning "chamber, room", an occupational name for a person who worked in the inner rooms of a mansion.

Occupational name for an administrator, a chancellor, from Norman French chancelier.

Derived from a diminutive form of French charbon "charcoal", a nickname for a person with black hair or a dark complexion.

From Old French castan "chestnut tree" (Latin castanea), a name for someone who lived near a particular chestnut tree, or possibly a nickname for someone with chestnut-coloured hair.

Originally indicated a person from the county of Cheshire in England. Cheshire is named for its city Chester.

From the English word, derived from Old English cirice, ultimately from Greek κυριακόν (kyriakon) meaning "(house) of the lord". It probably referred to a person who lived close to a church.

From Middle English clos meaning "enclosure", a topographic name for someone who lived near a courtyard or farmyard.

Derived from French clou meaning "nail", referring to someone who made or sold nails.

From a medieval English byname meaning "lump".

Variant of Cockburn.

Originally indicated someone who came from Cockburn, a place in Berwickshire. The place name is derived from Old English cocc "rooster" and burna "stream".

From a place name, itself derived from Old French chalenge meaning "disputed" and Middle English wode meaning "woods".

Occupational name for a keeper of horses, derived from Middle English colt.

Possibly from the name of the River Culm in Devon, England. This name is seen in the Domesday book as Culmstoke or Colmstoke.

Derived from Middle English cotter meaning "cottager", referring to a small tenant farmer.

Derived from Old French cosin meaning "cousin".

Means "tailor" in Old French.

Patronymic form of Cock.

Means "quiet, shy, coy" from Middle English coi.

From a place name derived from Old English crawe "crow" and ford "river crossing". A notable bearer was the American actress Joan Crawford (1904-1977), born Lucille Fay LeSueur.

From Old English croft meaning "enclosed field".

Locative name meaning "cross", ultimately from Latin crux. It denoted one who lived near a cross symbol or near a crossroads.

Originally denoted one who came from Aramits, the name of a town in the French Pyrenees that is possibly derived from Basque haran meaning "valley".

Habitational name from Darroch near Falkirk, in Stirlingshire, said to be named from Gaelic darach meaning "oak tree".

Means "of the cross" in French. It denoted one who lived near a cross symbol or near a crossroads. A notable bearer was the French painter Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863).

Means "from the hillside", from French coteau "hillside".

Indicated a person from Evreux in France, itself named after the Gaulish tribe of the Eburovices, which was probably derived from a Celtic word meaning "yew".

From the medieval given name Dicun, a medieval diminutive of Dick 1. A famous bearer of this surname was the British author Charles Dickens (1812-1870).

Means "from Isigny", referring to the town of Isigny in Normandy. This surname was borne by the American animator and filmmaker Walt Disney (1901-1966).

Occupational name for a baker, from French four "oven".

Means "from the farm", from Occitan mas "farmhouse", from Latin mansus "dwelling". A famous bearer was the French author Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870).

Means "from the mountain", from French mont "mountain".

Occupational name derived from Czech dvůr "manor", indicating a person who worked at such a place. This name was borne by the Czech composer Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904).

Indicated a person who worked or lived at a dyehouse, which is a place where dyeing was done.

From the name of multiple towns in England. The town's name is derived from the masculine given name Ella (a short form of Old English names beginning with the elements ælf meaning "elf" or eald meaning "old") combined with tun meaning "enclosure, town".

Habitational name for a person from the town of Elsworth in Cambridgeshire. The town's name is derived from the masculine given name Ella (a short form of Old English names beginning with the elements ælf meaning "elf" or eald meaning "old") combined with worþ meaning "enclosure".

Topographic name derived from Old English meaning "from the end cottage".

Denoted a person who was of English heritage. It was used to distinguish people who lived in border areas (for example, near Wales or Scotland). It was also used to distinguish an Anglo-Saxon from a Norman.

From the given name Étienne.

Means "beautiful child" in Middle English and Scots.

From a place name meaning "fern stream", from Old English fearn "fern" and burna "stream".

Means "beautiful child" in Middle English.

From a place name meaning "fair ravine, fair cliff" in Old English.

Variant of Faulkner.

Referred to a person who came from various places named Fay or Faye in northern France, derived from Old French fau "beech tree", from Latin fagus.

Derived from Old French fontane meaning "well, fountain", a derivative of Latin fons.

Derived from Old French fort "stronghold", indicating a person who lived near or worked at such a place.

Occupational name for a baker, from French fourneau meaning "oven".

From the name of the animal. It was originally a nickname for a person with red hair or a crafty person.

From Old English and Old High German meaning "frost", a nickname for a person who had a cold personality or a white beard.

Variant of Gardener.

Means "triangle land" from Old English gara and land. It originally belonged to a person who owned a triangle-shaped piece of land.

From Gaelic MacGilleChrìosd meaning "son of Gille Críst".

From Old English glæs or Old High German glas meaning "glass". This was an occupational name for a glass blower or glazier.

Derived from the given name Godwine.

Derived from the Norman given name Gosse.

Derived from a diminutive of the French given name Gosse.

Topographic name for someone who lived in or near a lush forest, from Old English grene "green" and wudu "wood".

Nickname from the mythological beast with body of a lion with head and wings of an eagle. It is ultimately from Greek γρύψ (gryps).

Variant of Hathaway.

Derived from Old English halh meaning "nook, recess, hollow".

Derived from various place names in England named with Old English halig "holy" and well "spring, well".

From a diminutive of the medieval name Hann.

Derived from the given name Heard. A famous bearer was American president Warren G. Harding (1865-1923).

From Old English heord "herd" and wic "village, town".

Derived from Old English har meaning "grey" and graf "grove".

Habitational name derived from a number of locations named Harlow, from Old English hær "rock, heap of stones" or here "army", combined with hlaw "hill".

From the name of towns in England, meaning either "Hæfer's town" or "stony town" in Old English.

Means "male deer". It was originally acquired by a person who lived in a place frequented by harts, or bore some resemblance to a hart.

Habitational name for someone originally from any of the various locations in England named Hartley, from Old English heorot "hart, male deer" and leah "woodland, clearing".

Habitational name for someone who lived near a path across a heath, from Old English hæþ "heath" and weg "way".

Variant of Hathaway.

Originally a nickname for a person who had a hawk-like appearance or who acted in a fierce manner, derived from Old English hafoc "hawk".

Denoted a person who lived near a hawthorn bush, a word derived from Old English hagaþorn, from haga meaning "enclosure, yard" and þorn meaning "thorn bush". A famous bearer was the American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), author of The Scarlet Letter.

From various place names meaning "fenced wood" in Old English.

Derived from the given name Henry.

From northern English place names meaning "high burial mound" in Old English. It was borne by Mary Queen of Scot's infamous third husband, James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwall. Other famous bearers include the actresses Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003) and Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993).

habitational name from Herrington in County Durham, England

From various English places of this name, derived from Old English hoh "point of land, heel" and land "land".

Means "spur of a hill", from Old English hoh.

From a place name derived from Gaelic inis meaning "island".

From the given name Aonghus.

Derived from an English place name meaning "clearing belonging to Cyhha". The Old English given name Cyhha is of unknown meaning.

From Scots and northern Middle English kerr meaning "thicket, marsh", ultimately from Old Norse kjarr.

From a place name meaning "king's clearing" in Old English.

From a place name meaning "king's town" in Old English.

Anglicized form of MacFhionnlaigh.

From the name of a place in Scotland, in Gaelic An Ceann Ard, meaning "high headland". In the 12th century a Norman nobleman received a charter of land here from King William the Lion (King of Scots), and was thereafter known by this name.

From Old English cniht meaning "knight", a tenant serving as a mounted soldier.

From Middle English knoll, Old English cnoll meaning "small hill, knoll". A famous bearer is American singer Beyoncé Knowles (1981-).

Means "the cross" in French. It denoted one who lived near a cross symbol or near a crossroads.

Means "landowner" in Scots, derived from northern Middle English laverd "lord", from Old English hlafweard.

Variant of Lorimer.

Either a variant of Leclerc or from French clair meaning "bright".

Derived from the place name Leymieux, a town in the Rhône-Alpes region of France.

Variant of Lévesque.

Derived from French évêque, a cognate of Bishop.

Originally from place names meaning "linden tree forest" in Old English.

Anglicized form of the Gaelic Mac an Fleisdeir meaning "son of the arrow maker".

Habitation name meaning derived from Brythonic roots meaning "pool hollow". A famous bearer of this name is actor John Lithgow (1945-).

From an English place name meaning "enclosed wood".

Means "maker or seller of metal items of a horse's harness and associated equipment (e.g. bits and spurs)" (from Anglo-Norman loremier, a derivative of Old French lorain "harness").

From the Old English given name Lufu meaning "love".

Possibly from the place name Leask in Aberdeenshire, of unknown meaning.

Variant of Linwood.

Originally denoted a person from the city of Lyon in central France, originally Latin Lugdunum, of Gaulish origin meaning "hill fort of Lugus". It could also denote a person from the small town of Lyons-la-Forêt in Normandy.

Variant of MacBeth.

Derived from the Gaelic given name Mac Beatha meaning "son of life", which denoted a man of religious devotion. This was the name of an 11th-century Scottish king, and the name of a play based on his life by William Shakespeare.

Variant of McIver.

Variant of Massey.

Occupational name meaning "merchant", ultimately from Latin mercari "to trade".

Originally a name for a person from Marlow in Buckinghamshire, England. The place name means "remnants of a lake" from Old English mere "lake" and lafe "remnants, remains". A notable bearer was the English playwright and poet Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593).

Variant of Marlow.

Occupational name meaning "mower, cutter of hay" in Old English.

Anglicized form of Gaelic MacIomhair meaning "son of Íomhar".

Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac an Aba meaning "son of the abbot".

Variant of McNab.

Referred to one who lived in a meadow, from Old English mædwe.

Variant of Marchand.

From a medieval nickname for someone of a cheerful disposition (cf. Meriwether).

Derived from the Old Norse given name Mundi.

Variant of Monday 1 or Monday 2.

Derived from either of the given names Hamon or Edmond. A famous bearer was the French impressionist painter Claude Monet (1840-1926).

Variant of Monet.

From a Norman place name meaning "sharp mountain" in Old French.

From a place name in Calvados, France meaning "Gumarich's mountain". A notable bearer was Bernard Montgomery (1887-1976), a British army commander during World War II.

Originally indicated a person from the town of Moyon in Normandy.

Derived from a diminutive of the given name Maurus.

From English ness and Norwegian nes meaning "headland, promontory", of Old Norse origin, originally referring to a person who lived there.

Nickname for someone with a good voice from Middle English nightegale "nightingale" (Old English nihtegale, ultimately from niht "night" and galan "to sing").

From a nickname meaning "noble, high-born, illustrious", derived via Middle English and Old French from Latin nobilis. In some cases the nickname may have been given ironically to people of the opposite character.

Originally denoted one who came from a town of this name England, meaning "north farm".

Derived from the Old English given name Uhtric.

Denoted a person who hailed from one of the various places in England called Overton, meaning "upper settlement" or "riverbank settlement" in Old English.

Originally indicated a person from Padmore in England, derived from Old English padde "toad" and mor "moor, marsh".

Diminutive of Page.

From the name of a town near Glasgow, which may ultimately be derived from Latin basilica "church".

origin is unknown but the meaning of the name is lover used in France and England

From Middle English pecok meaning "peacock". It was originally a nickname for a proud or haughty person.

Derived from Old French pelletier "fur trader".

From the name of a town near Manchester, derived from Celtic penn meaning "hill" combined with Old English bere meaning "barley" and tun meaning "enclosure, yard, town".

Derived from Norman French petit "small" and cru "growth".

From the name of a town in Yorkshire, derived from Old English Piceringas, the name of a tribe.

Nickname for a person who was a pilgrim, ultimately from Latin peregrinus.

From Old English prætt meaning "trick, prank". This was a nickname for a trickster.

Nickname for a person with a proud step.

From Puttenham, the name of towns in Hertfordshire and Surrey in England, which mean "Putta's homestead".

Recorded in several forms including Pim, Pimm, Pimme, Pym, and Pymm, this is a surname which at various times has been prominent in the history of England. The name itself is of medieval English (Anglo-Saxon) origin. It derives from the medieval female given name, 'Pymme/Pymma' (from ‘Phemie’) which is a shortened/nickname or pet form of ‘εϋφημα’ (Euphemia/Eufemia), a Greek name, introduced into Europe by the returning Crusaders of the 11th century. The surname Pym referred to the son of Euphemia which belongs to the category of patronymic surnames. Composed of the elements 'EU', meaning 'well', and 'phone' meaning ‘to speak’, the name was adopted by Christians, who used it in the sense of 'praise God' or 'good repute’ (well-spoken-of or to speak well of). This Greek word is found at Philippians 4:8 (strong’s No: 2163 - Well spoken of, i.e reputable - of Good report)

Quill or Quille is an anglicised version of the Irish surnames Ó Cuill, Coll, Coill, and O'Coill (Ó Coill), all of which mean wood, forest or shrub Hazel Tree. The Coill clan are believed to be a bardic family from Munster, particularly Kerry and Cork. The Irish surname has also been Anglicised as Woods.

Variation of Quill.

From various place names in England that mean "red cliff" in Old English.

Variant of Radcliff.

From the name of the town of Richelieu, derived from French riche "wealthy" and lieu "place". The historic figure Cardinal Richelieu (1585-1642), born Armand du Plessis, was so-called because he became the first Duke of Richelieu. He appears in Alexander Dumas' novel The Three Musketeers (1844).

Diminutive of Roux. A famous bearer was the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) whose ideas influenced the French Revolution.

From Gaelic rusgaire meaning "tanner".

From the name of places in southern Scotland and northern England, derived from Old English hriðer meaning "cattle, ox" and ford meaning "ford, river crossing".

Variant of Rutherford.

From Old English, indicated the original nearer lived on sandy ground.

From Japanese 澤 (sawa) meaning "marsh".

From Welsh saer meaning "carpenter".

Occupational name meaning "acrobat, dancer", derived from Old French sailleor, from Latin sallitor.

Denoted a person from a town by this name in Buckinghamshire, England. It is derived from that of a river combined with Old English broc "stream".

Variant of Seabrook.

Version of Sayer. Used in the United States. Famous bearer of the name is Richard Warren Sears, one of the founders of Sears, Roebuck and Co.

Variant of Sedgwick.

Habitational name from Sedgwick in Cumbria, so named from the Middle English personal name Sigg(e) (from Old Norse Siggi or Old English Sicg, short forms of the various compound names with the first element "victory") + Old English wic "outlying settlement", "dairy farm"; or from Sedgewick in Sussex, named with Old English secg (sedge) + wic.

From the name of the city of Soissons in northern France, itself derived from the name of the Celtic tribe of the Suessiones.

From a nickname for a warlike person, from Old English scacan "to shake" and spere "spear". A famous bearer was the English dramatist and poet William Shakespeare (1564-1616).

Originally a name for someone from Sharrow, England, derived from Old English scearu "boundary" and hoh "point of land, heel".

From the Anglo-Saxons influence in England. Said to be derived from the ancient Sibbelee, a woman’s Christian name, and has been traced through Sibilla, Sybbly, and finally Sibley. Sibilla was the name of a Greek princess who uttered the ancient oracles, and is represented on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. The present Christian name Sybil (meaning a prophetess) is also from the same source. Spelling variations include Siblee, Sibleigh, Siblie, Sibly, Sibbly, Sibely, Sibili, Sibble, Sybly and Sybley. Spelling variations were frequent in the Middle Ages, even between father and son.

Some information from House of Names.

Clan Sinclair is a Scottish clan, which held lands in the highlands; thought to have come to Scotland from France after the Norman invasion.

Derived from a Norman French town called "Saint Clair".

Patronymic form of Spear.

From Middle English sparewe "sparrow" and the diminutive suffix -ling.

From the name of the English city of Stafford, Staffordshire, derived from Old English stæð meaning "wharf, landing place" and ford meaning "ford, river crossing".

From the name of a village in the English county of Cheshire, derived from Old English stæð meaning "wharf, landing place" and ham "home, settlement".

From the place name St Clair

Occupational name for a horse keeper, from Old English stod "stallion, stud" and hierde "herder".

From an English place name derived from Old English strod meaning "marshy ground overgrown with brushwood" and wic meaning "village, town".

Originally indicated the bearer was from a town of this name, derived from Old English sumor "summer" and feld "field".

Regional name for a person who came from the former county by this name in Scotland. It is derived from Old Norse suðr "south" and land "land", because it was south of the Norse colony of Orkney.

From the name of the bird, from Old English swealwe, a nickname for someone who resembled or acted like a swallow.

Variant of Toft.

From Middle English at asche meaning "at the ash tree".

From Middle English taske meaning "task, assignment". A tasker was a person who had a fixed job to do, particularly a person who threshed grain with a flail.

From Old French tasse "purse, bag", an occupational name for a maker or seller of purses.

From the name of the town of Tatham in Lancashire, itself from the Old English given name Tata combined with ham meaning "home, settlement".

Variant of Tatham.

Northern Middle English variant of Thatcher.

Referred to a person who thatched roofs by attaching straw to them, derived from Old English þæc meaning "thatch, roof". A famous bearer was the British prime minister Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013).

The name Thirring has many different forms/variant spellings. These include Thiering, Thiring, Thuring,Thuringer, Turinger, Duringer, Diringer, Diring and During. One of the reasons for all the variant spellings is that the church scribes in Hungary originally all recorded the name differently. All these surnames including Thirring were based on the original surname Thuringer. The surname Thuringer means "Thuringian forest" and was based on the Thuringian forest in Thruingia, Germany.The Thirring family originally came from Thuringia, Germany, and later moved to Hungary and Austria.

Derived from the Old Norse given name Þórbjǫrn.

Originally applied to a person who lived in or near a thorn bush.

Variant of Thorn.

From any of the various places in England by this name, meaning "thorn town" in Old English.

Indicated a dweller in a forest clearing or pasture, from Old Norse þveit "clearing, pasture".

Variant of Toft.

From an English place name, derived from Old English timber "timber, wood" and lacu "lake, pool, stream".

From Tindale, the name of a town in Cumbria, derived from the name of the river Tyne combined with Old English dæl "dale, valley".

Occupational name for a mender of kettles, pots and pans. The name could derive from the tinking sound made by light hammering on metal. It is possible that the word comes from the word tin, the material with which the tinker worked.

Originally given to one who came from the town of Tipton, derived from the Old English given name Tippa combined with tun "enclosure, yard, town".

Denoted a person hailing from one of the many places in Britain of that name, derived from Old Norse topt meaning "homestead".

Indicated a person who lived at the town's edge, from Old English tun "enclosure, yard, town" and ende "end, limit".

Originally indicated a person from Thirsk, North Yorkshire, derived from Old Norse þresk meaning "fen, marsh".

Originally denoted a person from a place of this name in Cornwall, England.

From French tremble meaning "aspen". It is especially widespread in Quebec, being the most common surname there.

Originally indicated a person from Trengove in Cornwall, England.

From a diminutive of the given name Thouroude, a medieval French form of the Norse name Torvald. This name has been borne by two Canadian prime ministers, Pierre Elliott Trudeau (1919-2000) and his son Justin Trudeau (1971-).

This surname is of Anglo-Saxon origin, and has three distinct possible sources, each with its own history and derivation.

Firstly, True may belong to that sizeable group of early European surnames that were gradually created from the habitual use of nicknames. The surname may have derived from the Olde English pre-7th Century "treowe" (Middle English "trow(e)", faithful, steadfast), denoting a loyal, steadfast person.

The second possibility is that True is a topographical name from residence by some prominent tree, deriving from the Olde English "treow" (Middle English "trew, trow"), tree, or from Trew (Cornwall), or True (Devon), localities named with this word.

Finally, the name may be topographic for someone who lived near a depression in the ground, from the Middle English "trow", trough, hollow, or from Trow Farm (Wiltshire).

Variant of Tuft.

Denoted one who lived near a clump of trees or bushes, from Middle English tufte "tuft, clump", from Old French.

Probably from the name of towns in England and Wales called Twist or Twiss. This surname was used by Charles Dickens for the hero of his novel Oliver Twist (1838), about an orphan surviving the streets of London. Dickens probably had the vocabulary word twist in mind when naming the character.

Means "German" in Swedish. It probably started out as a nickname for someone who had immigrated from Germany or for someone who had German ancestry. It could also be a 'soldier name' and refer to the military unit someone belonged to. Soldier names became common in Sweden in the 17th and 18th century when patronymic surnames were the norm. When joining the army, the soldiers needed a unique surname in order to distinguish them from each other. The names could be taken from a trait (like one's ancestry), or from military terms (like the military unit one belonged to).

Means "dweller at the foot of a hill", from Old English under and hyll.

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

Denoted a person hailing from one of the many towns in England bearing this name. The place name itself is derived from Old English upp "up" and tun "enclosure, yard, town".

Derived from Brythonic ar "by" and cardden "thicket". This is the name of several places, the most famous being north of Loch Ness.

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

From Old English wælisc meaning "foreigner, stranger, Celt".

From Old English wer meaning "dam, weir", indicating someone who lived near such a structure.

From the Middle English nickname ware meaning "wary, astute, prudent".

From the name of an English town, itself derived from Old English wer "weir, dam" and wic "village, town".

Derived from the Old English wer, meaning a "weir, dam, fishing-trap". This was used as an occupational surname for fishermen. Originated in Devon, England.

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Occupational name meaning "weaver", from Old English webba, a derivative of wefan "to weave".

Variant of Weeks.

Variant of Westcott.

From the name of places in England, derived from Old English west "west" and broc "brook, stream".

English British surname originating as a place name. There are several Westbury villages, parishes and even Manors across England that have given the name Westbury to people who take up residence in or come from those places.

An example of this is in Kent in the parish of Wateringbury, there was a Westbery manor, which burnt down in the early 1900's. A family of Westbery/Westbury derived there surname from living in the Manor in the 1300-1400's.

Further examples include the 1st Head Master of Eton, a William Westbury in the 1400's, who derived his name from the village of Westbury in Wiltshire.

Other Westburys have be known to derive surnames from Gloucester, Shropshire, and Somerset. Potential other counties include Bedfordshire. Well known locations for Westbury's are Wiltshire, Warwickshire, London, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire.

By the 1500's with the introduction of parish records by Henry the 8th, it was necessary to record surnames. This led to it being established as a permanent surname. Over the centuries of being recorded by relgious offcials numerous variants have resulted.

From any of the several English towns by this name, derived from Old English meaning "west cottage".

Originally indicated a person from the town of Wheelock, England. It was named for the nearby River Wheelock, which is derived from Welsh chwylog meaning "winding".

From various English place names derived from Old English hwit "white" and mor "moor, heath, bog".

English: topographic name for someone who lived in an outlying settlement dependent on a larger village, Old English wic (Latin vicus), or a habitational name from a place named with this word, of which there are examples in Berkshire, Gloucestershire, Somerset, and Worcestershire. The term seems to have been used, in particular, to denote an outlying dairy farm or a salt works.

English and German: from a medieval personal name, Middle English Wikke, German Wicko, a short form of any of various Germanic personal names formed with the element wig ‘battle’, ‘war’.

A habitational surname that originates from a lost medieval site or village of Norse origins.

Derived from "Wichnare," meaning an estate steward or bailiff, and the Anglo-Saxon "ham," meaning the steward's house.

From any of various towns by this name in England, notably in Hampshire. They are derived from Old English wic "village, town" (of Latin origin) and ham "home, settlement".

Variant of Weeks.

Two separate surnames, joined together to form Wicksey, when the Vikings invaded England. The name means "Dairy Farmer on the Marsh".

Means "wild, untamed, uncontrolled", derived from Old English wilde. This was either a nickname for a person who behaved in a wild manner or a topographic name for someone who lived on overgrown land.

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

From an English place name, derived from Venta, of Celtic origin, and Latin castrum meaning "camp, fortress".

From the name of a few English towns, one notably the site of Windsor Castle. Their names mean "riverbank with a windlass" in Old English, a windlass being a lifting apparatus. In 1917 the British royal family adopted this name (after Windsor Castle), replacing their previous name Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

From various English place names, derived from Old English winn "meadow, pasture" and feld "field".

Possibly denoted a person who came from Wincheap Street in Canterbury, England. It is uncertain origin, possibly meaning "wine market" in Old English.

From Old English winter or Old High German wintar meaning "winter". This was a nickname for a person with a cold personality.

From Old English winter meaning "winter" and botm meaning "ground, soil, bottom". This name probably referred to a winter pasture at the bottom of a lowland valley.

Habitational name from the place names Winthrope 1 or Winthrope 2.

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

From Middle High German or Middle English wolf meaning "wolf", or else from an Old German given name beginning with this element.

Variant of Wolf.

Nickname referring to the woodcock bird.

Indicated a person who had a home near a wood, derived from Old English wudu "wood" and ham "home, settlement".

Derived from the name of a town in Suffolk, England meaning "enclosed homestead".

From the name of the town of Wymondham, meaning "home belonging to Wigmund", from the given name Wigmund combined with Old English ham meaning "home, settlement".