BtNuserMA14's Personal Name List

The surname Ace's origin is from a Norman and Old French personal name, Ace, Asse, from Germanic Frankish origin Azzo, Atso, a pet form of personal names containing adal ‘noble’ as a first element.

Originally denoted a person from Anholt in the Netherlands, which means "hold, rest" in Dutch (a place where people could rest for the night).

Denoted a person from Araia in the Basque Country, Spain. It is of uncertain meaning.

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

Derived from Ampney St Mary, a small village and civil parish locally known as "Ashbrook", in Gloucestershire, England (recorded in the Domesday Book as Estbroce). It is named with Old English est meaning "east, eastern" and broc meaning "brook, stream".

English: habitational name from any of the numerous places in northern and eastern England called Ashby, from Old Norse askr ‘ash’ or the Old Norse personal name Aski + býr ‘farm’.

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.

From the given name Asher.

Meaning "ash tree field".

English locational name, from either "Aisemare", (from Old English pre 7th Century "aesc" meaning ash plus "mere" a lake; hence "lake where ash-trees grow), or from any of several minor places composed of the Old English elements "aesc" ash plus "mor" a marsh or fen.

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

Spanish cognate of Banner.

North German and Frisian: from the Old Frisian personal name Beyo or Boy/Boye (see Boye).
French: habitational name from any of the places so named, in Ain, Meurthe-et-Moselle, or Saône-et-Loire.
French (Burgundy): topographic name for someone who lived by a mill stream.

Variant of Bayer.

Means "farmers village", from German Bauer meaning "farmer" and Dorf meaning "village".

Southern Welsh variant of Bennion; from Welsh ab Eynon meaning "son of Einion".

Means "brown" in German.

Variant of Brown (See also Bronson).

Bronze is a yellowish-brown alloy of copper with up to one-third tin. It is a modern first name. In the US, 5 girls and 9 boys were given this first name in 2018.

Originally a nickname for a person who had brown hair or skin. A notable bearer is Charlie Brown from the Peanuts comic strip by Charles Schulz.

Variant spelling of "Brownlee". Brown field in Old English.

Late Old English name meaning "brown lock (of hair)", composed of the elements brun "brown" and locc "hair, curl" (probably originally a byname).

Variant of Bruno based on the genitive form of the Latin declination.

Derived from Old High German brunja "breastplate, cuirass" or brûn "brown" combined with rîcja "powerful, strong, mighty." The second element is also closely related to Celtic rîg or rix and Gothic reiks, which all mean "king, ruler."

Variant of Brunwine, an Old English name composed of the elements brun meaning "brown" and wine meaning "friend".

Variant of Birch.

Meaning unknown.

From Old Dutch bur "house, dwelling". This is a small town on the island of Ameland in the north of the Netherlands, as well as a small city in Gelderland.

Old English occupational name originally meaning "cup bearer" or "butler" for one who dispensed wine and had charge of the cellar. Eventually the name came to mean the chief servant of a royal or noble household and was replaced by the French language inspired named 'Butler,' akin to the world "bottler".

From the given name Everard.

Means "son of Floro" in Spanish.

From Old English graf meaning "grove of trees". A famous bearer was the American president Grover Cleveland (1837-1908).

From Old English graf meaning "grove". This originally indicated a person who lived near a grove (a group of trees).

From the Old French personal name Harduin, composed of the Germanic elements hard 'hardy', 'brave' + win 'friend'.

Habitation name found especially along the border areas of England and Scotland, from the Old English elements har meaning "gray" or hara referring to the animals called "hares" plus wudu for "wood". Therefore a location name meaning "from a gray wood or from a wood known for the presence of hares".

Originally belonged to a person who was a dweller on the heath or open land.

English: habitational name from any of various places, for example in Derbyshire, Dorset, and Suffolk, so called from Old English hol ‘hollow’, ‘sunken’ + broc ‘stream’.
The name has probably absorbed the Dutch surname van Hoobroek, found in London in the early 17th century, and possibly a similar Low German surname (Holbrock or Halbrock). Several American bearers of the name in the 1880 census give their place of birth as Oldenburg or Hannover, Germany.

Means "son of Holger".

Possibly from Spanish holgar "to rest, to enjoy oneself".

From Swedish, Danish and Norwegian holme, holm meaning "islet" (Old Norse holmr).

Ornamental name derived from Swedish holme (Old Norse holmr) meaning "small island" and gren (Old Norse grein) meaning "branch".

From Swedish holme (Old Norse holmr) meaning "small island" and ström (Old Norse straumr) meaning "stream".

Variant of Homewood.

From Old English, Old Dutch and Old Norse holt meaning "forest".

Derived from English holt meaning "small wood". A topographic name for someone who lived near a small wooden area, as well as a habitational name from a place named with that element.

German cognate of Holt.

From Basque place names derived from ibar meaning "meadow".

Derived from the Old English given name Eoforwine.

Means "son of Ive", a medieval male personal name, brought into England by the Normans but ultimately of Germanic origin, a shortened form of any of a range of compound names beginning with īv "yew" (cf. modern French Yves). This surname was borne by American film director Charles Ives (1874-1954).

From the given name Leodegar or Legier. Alternatively, could be an occupational name for a stonemason, ultimately derived from Old English lecgan "to put, place, lay (down)".

Habitational name from any of various places derived from Old English loca meaning "(locked) enclosure, stronghold".

Variant of Lockyer. Locklear is an occupational name of anglo-saxon origin meaning "locksmith".

Variant of Locklear. Lockyer is an occupational name of anglo-saxon origin meaning "locksmith".

From a medieval nickname for a dandy or a man conceited about his appearance (from lovelock, a term for an elaborately curled lock of hair). This surname is borne by British scientist James Lovelock (1919-), formulator of the "Gaia" concept.

From the given name Marcos. A famous bearer was Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos (1917-1989).

Derived from the given name Mark.

Means "son of Marko or Mark".

Means "son of Marko".

Derived from the given name Mark.

Derived from Middle High German and Middle Low German mar(e), denoting an evil elf, a creature that sits on one's chest at night, and Middle High German loc "a lock of hair; hair; mane". In folklore, a Marlock (also known as Marlocke, Morlock, Morlocke or Weichselzopf) is an inextricable mop of hair that said evil elf created.

From the given name Mars

From the name of two places named Marwood in England, or a nickname for a person who "casts an evil eye", derived from Norman French malreward meaning "evil eye, glance".

Is a portmanteau of the words mar, meaning sea, and corazon, meaning heart.

This surname may be a variant of Maurice.

Surname notably borne by Texas lawyer, politician and land baron Samuel Maverick (1803-1870) to whom the word maverick was coined.

Of uncertain origin, probably an altered form of Mowbray. Possibly it is derived from an English place name.

A topographic name for someone who lived near a meadow. The form meadow derives from mǣdwe, the dative case of Old English mǣd.

Meremäe is an Estonian surname meaning "sea hill".

Spanish cognate of Montagna.

Means "hunter" in Spanish, an agent derivative of monte meaning "mountain, wilderness".

From Spanish monte meaning "mountain", and rosa meaning "pink, rose".

Derived from Spanish mora meaning "mulberry", of Latin origin.

Derived from Spanish moral meaning "mulberry tree", of Latin origin.

Variant of Morriss.

Derived from Portuguese amoreira meaning "mulberry tree".

From a nickname meaning "dark" in Spanish and Portuguese.

From Japanese 森 (mori) meaning "forest".

From the Japanese 盛 (mori) "assortment" or 森 (mori) "forest" and 合 (ai) "fit," "suit," "join."

Variant of Morihara.

From Japanese 森 (mori) meaning "forest" and 本 (moto) meaning "base, root, origin".

Mori means "forest" and o means "tail."

From Japanese 森 (mori) meaning "forest" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Means "dark" in Swedish.

Means "dark" in Danish.

Variant of Marlock.

Habitational name from Moros in Zaragoza province, so named from the plural of moro ‘Moor’, i.e. ‘the place where the Moors live’.

Derived from the given name Maurice.

Variant of Morriss.

Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Maoilmhiadhaigh "descendant of Maoilmhiadhach", a personal name meaning "honorable chief".

Patronymic derived from the medieval Spanish given name Muño, from Latin Munnius, possibly of Germanic origin.

Naramor, also Narramore or Naramore, is a corruption of Northmore, and has Welsh/English background. "More North"

Denoted a person who came from Navarre in northern Spain (Spanish Navarra). The name of the region is of Basque origin, possibly from nabar meaning "brown".

Either (i) from a medieval nickname for someone of a sunny disposition (noon being the sunniest part of the day); or (ii) from Irish Gaelic Ó Nuadháin "descendant of Nuadhán", a personal name based on Nuadha, the name of various Celtic gods (cf. Nuada).

Anglicized form of Irish Ó Nuanáin (from Irish Gaelic Ó hIonmhaineáin) meaning "descendant of Ionmhaineán", a diminutive of the given name Ionmhain "beloved, dear".

In some cases it may be a variant of Noone, an anglicized form of Irish Ó Nuadháin "descendant of Nuadhán" (see Nuadha).

Means "son of Nuno".

Means "son of Nuño".

Topographic surname for someone who lived near an oak tree or in an oak wood, from Middle English oke "oak".

English: Topographic name, a plural variant of Oak.
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Dubhdara ‘son of Dubhdara’, a personal name composed of the elements dubh ‘dark’ + dara(ch), genitive of dair ‘oak’, by translation of the main element of the Gaelic name.

Probably either from the former village of Oakwell-in-the-Blean in the county of Kent, or Ockwell Manor, and again a former village, near Bray, in Berkshire

Variant of Olmo.

Variant of Orozco. Means "place of the holly trees" from oros meaning "holly tree" and the suffix -ko signifying a place. Also believed to have been derived from Latin orosius meaning "the son of bringer of wisdom".

From a Spanish place name (belonging to various villages) derived from ortiga "nettle".

From the Welsh given name Owain.

Diminutive of Panagiotis.

The first element of this name is derived from Old High German rât "counsel." The second element is derived from gardan "to hedge in, to enclose, to fence in" or from Gothic gards "house, garden, (court)yard."

From rēadlēah meaning "red clearing". Radley is a village and civil parish in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England.

Derived from Old High German rât "counsel" combined with Old High German mâri "famous."

Derived from Old High German rât "counsel" combined with Old High German mund "protection."

Derived from the Russian phrase радуйся новой эре (raduysya novoy ere) meaning "hail the new era", referring to communism and the Soviet period. This name was used by Soviet parents who were eager to reject traditional Russian names. A known bearer is Radner Muratov (1928-2004), a Russian film actor of Tatar origin.

Meaning unknown, possibly related to the name Radovan. Alternatively it may have been brought to Romania by the Romani people (note that Romanian and Romani are unrelated), perhaps ultimately from Rizwan.

North German: from the Frisian personal name, composed of the Germanic elements rad ‘advice’, ‘counsel’ + mari, meri ‘fame’.

Variant of Revere originating in Devon.

Variant of Read 1.

From the given name Reinhold.

Either a variant of McRae, or else directly derived from Irish rí, Scottish Rìgh, or Welsh ri, rhi, or rhiau, all meaning "king". It is thus related to Rey 1.

Spanish variant of Rey 1.

From Spanish ribera meaning "bank, shore", from Latin riparius.

Variant of Rivera.

Means "person from Rockwell", Buckinghamshire and Somerset (respectively "wood frequented by rooks" and "well frequented by rooks"). Famous bearers include American illustrator Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) and Utah pioneer Porter Rockwell (1813-1878).

Means "red" in Spanish, referring to the colour of the hair or complexion.

Means "rose bushes" in Spanish.

Means "Roses" in German

Norwegian: habitational name from either of two farms called Røsholt in southeastern Norway, named with Old Norse, either ross ‘mare’ or ruð ‘clearing’ + holt ‘grove’, ‘wood’.

Nickname for a person with red hair, from Latin rubeus "red".

Means "saint" in Portuguese and Spanish, ultimately from Latin sanctus. This was a nickname for a pious person.

Saxby is the surname of the character Stella Saxby from the book Awful Auntie, by David Walliams. Saxby means "Grand" .

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

From the name of a village in Asturias, Spain, derived from Spanish sol "sun".

Means "rural estate" in Basque.

Possibly a variant of Solo.

From the given name Sultan.

Bashkir and Tatar form of Sultanov.

Means "summer", from Old High German sumar or Old English sumor. This was a nickname for a cheerful person, someone who lived in a sunny spot, or a farmer who had to pay taxes in the summer.

Means "grove of trees, small forest" in Spanish, ultimately from Latin saltus.

English surname meaning "From the south well"

German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) habitational name from any of several places in Lower Saxony or Baden named with German Tannen ‘pine’, or from a short form of any of the many compound names formed with this element. Jewish (American) shortened form of Tannenbaum.

From the English word for the type of duck or the greenish-blue colour.

Indicated a dweller by a fen, from Old English fenn meaning "fen, marsh".

From Spanish vega meaning "meadow, plain", of Basque origin.

From the given name Bonaventura.

Old English form of Wayland.

Derived from Middle English wille meaning "well, spring, water hole".

From Middle High German welsch, walsch "person from a Romance country (especially Italy), foreigner", hence an ethnic name or in some cases perhaps a nickname for someone who had trading or other connections with the Romance countries.

Variant of Walsh.

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

Of uncertain origin. One theory suggests that it indicated a dweller by a hollow oak tree, derived from Old English womb "hollow" and ac "oak".

From an Old English personal name, Wudlac, composed of the elements wudu ‘wood’ + lac ‘play’, ‘sport’.

From a place name meaning "row of houses by a wood" in Old English.

Originally denoted someone who came from any of the various places of this name in northern England, from Old Norse vrá meaning "corner, nook".