Charlie1977's Personal Name List

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

Variant of Banner.

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

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.

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

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

Anglicized form of Ó Cathail.

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

Transferred use of the surname Corbett.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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).

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

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".

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.

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

Variant of McLeod.

Variant of McMillan.

Anglicized form of Mac Shuibhne.

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).

Transferred use of the surname Maxfield.

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

From the Jèrriais surname Poingdestre meaning "right fist".

Means "son of Robin".

Variant of Sealy.

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

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

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

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

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

Variant of Westcott.

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).

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 "son of Xanthos".

Anglicized form of German Jäger.