sweetkit's Personal Name List
Argento
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: ar-JEHN-to
Means "silver" in Italian, originally used as an occupational name for a silversmith or a nickname for a person with gray hair.
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.
Bates
Usage: English
Pronounced: BAYTS
Bierce
Usage: English, Welsh
Pronounced: BEERS(English)
English variant and Welsh form of
Pierce. A famous bearer was the American author, journalist and poet Ambrose Bierce (1842-c. 1914), who wrote
The Devil's Dictionary and other works. He was also an American Civil War veteran.
Boyle
Usage: Irish
Pronounced: BOIL(English)
From Irish Ó Baoighill meaning "descendant of Baoigheall". The meaning of the given name Baoigheall is uncertain, but it is thought to be connected to Irish geall meaning "pledge".
Burton
Usage: English
Pronounced: BUR-tən(American English) BU-tən(British English)
From a common English place name, derived from Old English meaning "fortified town".
Cameron
Usage: Scottish
Pronounced: KAM-rən(English)
Means "crooked nose" from Gaelic cam "crooked" and sròn "nose".
Carpenter
Usage: English
Pronounced: KAHR-pən-tər(American English) KAH-pən-tə(British English)
From the occupation, derived from Middle English carpentier (ultimately from Latin carpentarius meaning "carriage maker").
Clark
Usage: English
Pronounced: KLAHRK(American English) KLAHK(British English)
Means "cleric" or "scribe", from Old English clerec meaning "priest", ultimately from Latin clericus. A famous bearer was William Clark (1770-1838), an explorer of the west of North America.
De Palma
Means "from the palm tree" in Italian.
Gordon
From the name of a place in Berwickshire, Scotland, derived from Brythonic words meaning "spacious fort".
Grimm
From a nickname for a stern person, derived from Old High German grim "stern, severe, angry". Famous bearers include Jacob (1785-1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (1786-1859), known for compiling German folktales.
Hooper
Usage: English
Pronounced: HOOP-ər(American English) HOOP-ə(British English)
Occupational name for someone who put the metal hoops around wooden barrels.
Irving
Usage: Scottish, English
Pronounced: UR-ving(American English) U-ving(British English)
Itō
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 伊藤(Japanese Kanji) いとう(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: EE-TO
From Japanese
伊 (i) meaning "this" and
藤 (tō) meaning "wisteria". The final character may indicate a connection to the Fujiwara clan.
Jackson
Usage: English
Pronounced: JAK-sən
Means
"son of Jack". Famous bearers of this name include the American president Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) and the singer Michael Jackson (1958-2009).
King
Usage: English
Pronounced: KING
From Old English cyning "king", originally a nickname for someone who either acted in a kingly manner or who worked for or was otherwise associated with a king. A famous bearer was the American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968).
Kubrick
Usage: Jewish, Polish
Pronounced: KOO-BRIK(Polish)
Derived from Polish kubryk "ship's forecastle". Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999) was an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and photographer, widely considered as the greatest filmmaker of all time.
Lovecraft
Usage: English
Pronounced: LUV-kraft
An English surname coming from the Old English
lufu, meaning "love, desire", and
cæft, meaning "strength, skill".
A well-known bearer of this surname is author H. P. Lovecraft.
Lynch
From Irish Ó Loingsigh meaning "descendant of Loingseach", a given name meaning "mariner".
Romero
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: ro-MEH-ro
Derived from Spanish
romero meaning
"pilgrim to Rome".
Shelley
Usage: English, Irish (Anglicized)
Pronounced: SHEHL-ee(English)
Habitational name from any of the three places called
Shelley (Essex Suffolk Yorkshire) or from Shelley Plain in Crawley (Sussex). The placenames all derive from Old English
scelf "rock ledge, shelf" and
leah "woodland clearing". Shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic
Ó Sealbhaigh "descendant of
Sealbhach" a byname from the adjective
sealbhach "having possessions wealthy".
Stoker
Means "trumpeter", from Scottish Gaelic and Irish stoc "trumpet, bugle, horn".
Tarantino
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: ta-ran-TEE-no
Locational name that originally designated a person who came from Taranto, a city in southeastern Italy, which was originally called
Τάρας (Taras) by Greek colonists. A famous bearer of this name is the American director Quentin Tarantino (1963-).
Thorn
Usage: English, Danish
Pronounced: THAWRN(American English) THAWN(British English)
Originally applied to a person who lived in or near a thorn bush.
Torrence
Scottish and northern Irish habitational name from either of two places called Torrance (one near East Kilbride, the other north of Glasgow under the Campsie Fells), named with Gaelic
torran ‘hillock’, ‘mound’, with the later addition of the English plural
-s.
Irish reduced Anglicized form of
Ó Toráin (see
Toran).
Warden
Usage: English
Pronounced: WAW-dən(British English) WAWR-dən(American English)
Occupational name for a watchman or guard, from Old French wardein meaning "protector, guard". It was also used as a habbitational name for someone from any of the various locations in England named Warden. Alternately, it may be from Old English weard meaning "guard, watch" and dun meaning "hill, mountain".
West
Usage: English, German
Pronounced: WEST(English) VEST(German)
Denoted a person who lived to the west of something, or who came from the west.
Wright 1
Usage: English
Pronounced: RIET
From Old English wyrhta meaning "wright, maker", an occupational name for someone who was a craftsman. Famous bearers were Orville and Wilbur Wright, the inventors of the first successful airplane.
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