Behind the Name: zaidelles's Personal Name List

Atkinson

Usage: English

Pronounced: AT-kin-sən

Means "son of Atkin", a medieval diminutive of Adam.

Azarola

Usage: Basque

Possibly from Basque azeri meaning "fox".

Barker

Usage: English

Pronounced: BAHR-kər(American English) BAH-kə(British English)

From Middle English bark meaning "to tan". This was an occupational name for a leather tanner.

Blythe

Usage: English

Pronounced: BLIEDH

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

Bryce

Usage: English

Pronounced: BRIES

From the given name Brice.

Bunker

Usage: English

Pronounced: BUNG-kər(American English) BUNG-kə(British English)

Derived from Old French bon cuer meaning "good heart".

Campbell

Usage: Scottish

Pronounced: KAM-bəl(English)

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".

Cousland

Usage: Scottish

Of local origin from Cousland in the parish of Cranston, Midlothian.

Fisher

Usage: English, Jewish

Pronounced: FISH-ər(American English) FISH-ə(British English)

Cognate of Fischer.

Hale

Usage: English

Pronounced: HAYL

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

Hawthorne

Usage: English

Pronounced: HAW-thawrn(American English) HAW-thawn(British English)

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.

Meyer 1

Usage: German

Pronounced: MIE-u

From Middle High German meier meaning "bailiff, administrator", derived from Latin maior meaning "greater". Later it also denoted a tenant farmer. The spellings Meier and Meyer are more common in northern Germany while Maier and Mayer are more common in southern Germany.

Ortega

Usage: Spanish

Pronounced: or-TEH-gha

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

Trevelyan

Usage: Welsh, Cornish

Derived from Welsh tref "village, settlement" or Cornish trev "farmstead, town" combined with the given name Elyan.

Vång

Usage: Swedish

Pronounced: VAWNG

Swedish variant of Wang 3.

Watts

Usage: English

Pronounced: WAHTS(American English) WAWTS(British English)

Patronymic derived from the Middle English given name Wat or Watt, a diminutive of the name Walter.