Behind the Name: dianae's Personal Name List

Barbour

Usage: English, Scottish, Northern Irish

Pronounced: BAHR-bər

Occupational name for a barber, one who cuts hair for a living.

Basile

Usage: Italian, French

Pronounced: ba-ZEE-leh(Italian) BA-ZEEL(French)

Rating: 50% based on 1 vote

From the given name Basilio or Basile.

Baudelaire

Usage: French

Pronounced: bo-de-LARE

Rating: 30% based on 1 vote

A French surname, coming from the word "baudelaire", which is a short, broad, and curved sword used in heraldry.

Beausire

Usage: French

Rating: 40% based on 1 vote

French cognate of Bowser.

Brodeur

Usage: French

Rating: 70% based on 1 vote

Means "embroiderer" in French.

Charbonneau

Usage: French

Pronounced: SHAR-BAW-NO

Rating: 100% based on 1 vote

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

Cloutier

Usage: French

Pronounced: KLOO-TYEH

Rating: 80% based on 1 vote

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

Cochet

Usage: French

Pronounced: KAW-SHEH

Rating: 70% based on 1 vote

Either from cochet a diminutive of coq "rooster" used as a nickname for a vain conceited or womanizing individual. Or possibly also a habitational name from (Le) Cochet the name of several places in various parts of France.

Demetriou

Usage: Greek

Other Scripts: Δημητρίου(Greek)

Pronounced: dhee-mee-TREE-oo

Rating: 90% based on 1 vote

Alternate transcription of Greek Δημητρίου (see Dimitriou).

Devore

Usage: French

Rating: 80% based on 1 vote

French: variant of De Var, a habitational name for someone from a place named Var, for example in Charente. Respelling of French Devors, a habitational name, with the preposition de, for someone from Vors in Aveyron.

Doucet

Usage: French

Rating: 80% based on 1 vote

Nickname for a gentle minded person from French doux "sweet" (from Latin dulcis).

Gagneux

Usage: French

Rating: 80% based on 1 vote

Derived from Old French gagnier meaning "to farm, to cultivate".

Meunier

Usage: French

Rating: 80% based on 1 vote

Means "miller" in French.

Sauvageau

Usage: French

Rating: 90% based on 1 vote

French diminutive form of Savage.