vampgrrl's Personal Name List

Feminine form of Aliyev. This is also an alternate transcription of Azerbaijani Əliyeva.

From a dialectal form of the name Aloisio.

From the Late Latin name Ambrosius, which was derived from the Greek name Αμβροσιος (Ambrosios) meaning "immortal".

From the given name Amos.

Occupational name for one who practiced archery, from Latin arcus "bow" (via Old French).

Variant of Arends.

Mingrelian form of the Abkhaz name Арстаа (Arstaa) ultimately derived from the Ancient Greek personal name Aristarchus.

Possibly a habitational name with the combination of ax, a Swedish word for the fruiting body of a grain plant, and the common surname suffix -ell.

Derived from the given name Ealhhere.

Derived from Old English bærnet meaning "place cleared by burning".

Franco-American & French-Canadian variant of the French surname Baudelaire. Also seen in Louisiana French-Creole.

From the English words bird and song. Possibly an English translation of the German surname Vogelsang.

From an English place name derived from Old English blæc meaning "black" and wille meaning "well, spring, water hole".

Anglicized form of the Gaelic surname Mac an Bhreatnaich ‘son of the Briton’, originally denoting a Strathclyde Welsh-speaking Briton. It was applied in Ireland also to people from Brittany.

Derived from Broz, a diminutive of Ambrozije. This was the birth surname of the Yugoslavian dictator Josip Broz Tito (1892-1980).

From the given name Boele.

Originally from a French derogatory nickname for someone with a bad temper.

Catalan and Italian: topographic name from Latin casa ‘house’ + nova ‘new’, or a habitational name from any of the many places named with these words.

A name of various possible origins. As a Norman French name Cave can mean "bald" from cauf or it can mean "worker in a wine cellar" or "one who dwelt in or near a cave". As an English name Cave refers to a Yorkshire river whose fast current inspired the name meaning "swift".

Occupational name for a cartwright wheelwright from Old French charrelier a derivative of charrel "cart" a diminutive of char "cart carriage".

From the given name Cherian.

From Middle English chirie, cherye "cherry", hence a metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of cherries, or possibly a nickname for someone with rosy cheeks.
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The surname Cherry was brought to England by a great wave of migration following the Norman Conquest of 1066. The name Cherry is derived from the Anglo Norman French word, 'cherise', which means cherry, and was probably used to indicate someone who lived by a cherry tree.

86,045 people have this surname, and is most prevalent in the United States.

Alternate transcription of Shukri chiefly used in Morocco.

Variant of O'Connor.

From the name of the River Conwy in Wales, or the town situated at the mouth of the river. It is possibly derived from Welsh cyn "foremost" and the common river name suffix wy.

Means "barrel maker", from Middle English couper.

From Irish Ó Cuinneagáin meaning "descendant of Cuinneagán", a diminutive of Conn.

The surname of Current, is of Irish/Scottish with several different families, and meanings of this name. There are many spelling variations of this name.

From a nickname or byname derived from Middle English dereling, Old English deorling, meaning "darling, beloved one".

From Old English Dearthington believed to be the settlement of Deornoth's people (unclear root + ing a family group + ton an enclosed farm or homestead).

From the given name David.

Means "son of David". This was the surname of the revolutionary jazz trumpet player Miles Davis (1926-1991).

Feminine form of Dmitriev.

From Irish Ó hEidirsceóil meaning "descendant of the messenger".

From the given name 'Isam.

Given to a person who was a Fleming, that is a person who was from Flanders in the Netherlands.

From Irish Ó Foghladha meaning "descendant of Foghlaidh". The byname Foghlaidh meant "pirate, marauder, plunderer".

Variant of Forest.

The first recorded use of the name is from 1291; Robert de Gidlow was a freeholder in Aspull, Lancanshire, United Kingdom and the name occurs frequently down to the 17th century. The Gidlow family moved to the United States in the mid-18th century where the spelling was changed to Goodlow and eventually to Goodloe.

From a nickname for a person who had grey hair or grey clothes.

Topographic name for someone who lived in or near a lush forest, from Old English grene "green" and wudu "wood".

Location name combining the elements hall as in "large house" and lee meaning "field or clearing."

Means "son of Hans". This is the most common surname in Norway, and the third most common in Denmark.

Derived from the given name Heard. A famous bearer was American president Warren G. Harding (1865-1923).

Anglicized form of Irish Ó hAodha meaning "descendant of Aodh".

Habitational name from Helton in Cumbria, named in Old English probably with helde "slope" and tun "farmstead, settlement", or possibly a variant of Hilton. This is a common name in TN, KY, OH, TX, and GA.

Means "son of Hendry".

Derived from the given name Hendrik. A famous bearer was the American rock musician Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970).

Originally given to a person who lived on or near a hill, derived from Old English hyll.

Swedish form of Holt.

Variant of Hunter.

Occupational name that referred to someone who hunted for a living, from Old English hunta.

Means "son of Ivan". It is among the most common surnames in Bulgaria and Russia.

Feminine form of Ivanov or Ivanow.

Means "son of John". Famous bearers include American presidents Andrew Johnson (1808-1875) and Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973).

Derived from the name of the Jordan river, which is from Hebrew יָרַד (yaraḏ) meaning "descend" or "flow down".

Derived from the given name Karim.

Feminine form of Kazlow.

From kinyata, the name of a type of ornamental belt worn by the Maasai. This was the surname of the first president of Kenya, Jomo Kenyatta (1897-1978). He adopted the surname in his youth.

Variant of Kihara.

Variant of Kunkel.

Means "fair, beautiful" in French.

Possibly a variant of German Lehr

From the nickname Lako, possibly meaning "swamp" in Abkhaz (denoting someone who lived in a marshy area).

Topographic name for someone who lived at a place where wild roses grew; or a habitational name from a town house bearing the sign of a rose. It may also have been a nickname for a man with a ‘rosy’ complexion, as well as a nickname of a soldier. In Canada it is a frequent secondary surname, which has also been used independently since 1704, and often translated as Rose in English.

Topographic name for someone who lived by a laurel tree, Spanish laurel (Latin laurus), or a habitational name from Laurel in the Canary Islands.

From the name of a district in Scotland, called Leamhnachd in Gaelic, possibly meaning "place of elms".

It means "linden forest" in German.

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

From the Old English given name Lufu meaning "love".

Combination of Middle English love(n), luve(n) "to love" and joie "joy".

Americanized form of Löwe.

Variant of Lozano.

Occupational name for a carpenter, from Portuguese madeira "wood".

Means "son of Marin".

Derived from the given name Martin. This is the most common surname in France.

Variant of Mathis.

From the given name Mauro.

Alternate transcription of Maksimov.

From the surname but also a given name that reminds some of Springtime

Derived from the given name Marzuq.

Ornamental name meaning "morning star" in German.

English transcription of Morgenstern.

Derived from Russian мороз (moroz) meaning "frost".

From the given name Musa.

Simplified variant of Nguyễn.

From the given name Nicholas.

Americanization of Nachtigall.

Originally indicated a person from one of the two towns named Orellana in Badajoz, Spain. Their names are probably derived from Latin Aureliana meaning "of Aurelius".

From the name of a village in Dailekh District called Parajul.

Means "keeper of the park" in Middle English. It is an occupational name for a person who was a gamekeeper at a medieval park.

Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental name from German Perlmutter ‘mother-of-pearl'.

Originally given to a person who played on a pipe (a flute).

Meaning unknown, possibly a nickname for a person deported to Spain, derived from the name of a location in Portugal.

Variant of Priestley. This name was borne by musician Elvis Presley (1935-1977).

From Albanian prift meaning "priest".

From the name of the town of Ryley in Lancashire, derived from Old English ryge "rye" and leah "woodland, clearing".

From Middle High German rot "red" and schilt "shield", or Yiddish רויט (roit) and שילד (shild). The famous Rothschild family of bankers took their name from a house with a red shield on it.

Occupational name for a mounted warrior, from Old English ridere meaning "rider".

A Gayonese patronymic.

Occupational name meaning "acrobat, dancer", derived from Old French sailleor, from Latin sallitor.

Americanized form of Sørensen or Sörensson.

Variant of Spector.

From Japanese 杉 (sugi) meaning "cedar" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".

Anglicized form of the Irish name Ó Súileabháin meaning "descendant of Súileabhán". The name Súileabhán means "dark eye".

Variant of Thorn.

Tulvi is an Estonian surname derived from "tulvil" meaning "brimful" and "brimming".

From Chinese 万 (wàn) referring to a city that existed during the Zhou dynasty in what is now Shaanxi province.

From Japanese 雪 (yuki) meaning "snow" and 村 (mura) meaning "town, village".

From Sino-Korean 尹 (yun) meaning "govern, oversee".

From Chinese 左 (zuǒ) meaning "left, left-hand side".