stephen_ded's Personal Name List

Derived from the Visigothic given name Alaric. This form was established in Quebec from 1681.

Originally Andrulevičus or Andrulevičius, it means "ben-Adam" or "ben-ish" ("ben" being "son" in Hebrew; Adam meaning "man"). The Andrulevičiuses were originally Sephardic kohanim whom immigrated to Lithuania, and then Poland, Latvia, and other countries.

Derived from Slavkov u Brna (historically known as Austerlitz in German), a town located in Vyškov District, in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. This was real surname of the American actor and dancer Fred Astaire (1899-1987), as well as his sister Adele Astaire (1896-1981), an actress, singer and dancer.

Derived from the Latin words bis, meaning "two" and cornet, meaning "horn". According to French urban legend, this was the last name of the architect who built the doorways in the Notre Dame de Paris Cathedral. In order to complete the architecture in one night before his deadline and make it look perfect, he sold his soul to the devil. Other people believe that he was the Devil himself, due to the meaning of the surname Biscornet.

A character in the classic novel The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. In the novel, Caderousse is a tailor and inkeeper who aids in the arrest of Dantès.

Variant spelling of Carruthers.

Possibly from a village in England called Coberley

From the given name Deressa.

Variant of Ketterley

Used by Enid Blyton in the Famous Five book series (first published 1942) for the main character George Kirrin. It is also used as a place name for the fictional village where she lives and the nearby island.

It originated when an immigrant family named Michelet came to New York from Northern France. Because they had a foreign surname, they made up the names Mickley and Michelin. The originator was Jean Jacques Michelet (John Jacob Mickley), a private in the Revolutionary War. He is known for saving the Liberty Bell in Allentown, Pennsylvania in 1776. There was a small town named Mickley, Pennsylvania in the 1800's.

Derived from an Alemannic diminutive of the given names Albrecht and Albert.

Variant of Reeve.

Derived from Old High German hruod "fame". This was the maiden name of Magda Goebbels who was the wife of Paul Joseph Goebbels. Her husband was Nazi Germany's propaganda minister between the years 1933 and 1945. She died by committing suicide.

Southern French surname, originally a nickname for a pleasant or amiable person, from a diminutive of sabor meaning "flavor, taste" (Old French saveur). The Huguenots brought this surname to England, and from there it may have been introduced to North America.

The Scriblerus Club was an informal association of authors, based in London, that came together in the early 18th century. The nucleus of the club included the satirists Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope. Working collaboratively, the group created the persona of Martinus Scriblerus, through whose writings they accomplished their satirical aims.

An English surname.

A German surname.

An American version of Somerville, a French family given peerage in Scotland. Patriarch Sir Gualter de Somerville of Normandy's son William de Somerville was created Lord of Carnwath by King David I of Scotland in the 12th century.

Derived from ⵜⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⵗⵜ (Tamaziɣt), the Berber (Amazigh) name for the collective Berber language family used in North Africa.

Variant of Trudeau.

A variant of the surname Weidlich.

Derived from the personal name Wulfric.