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AALDENBERG Dutch Denotes a person who came from a place called Aaldenberg, which perhaps meant "old mountain". AARLE Dutch Denotes a person who hailed from a place of this name in the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium. ABANO Spanish Denoted someone hailing from Abano in Spain, a spa town whose name probably is related to the Celtic root ab meaning "water". ABBEY English Means "dweller by the abbey" or "worker at the abbey" from the Middle English abbeye, abbaye. ABNEY English Originally the name was D'Aubigne and is found as the name of towns in four locations in France... [more] ABREU Portuguese, Galician Habitational name from the a place called Abreu in the former Minho province in Portugal. ABSPOEL Dutch Denoted a person who lived in or by a house in Oegstgeest, South Holland, called Abtspoel. ACHTERBERG Dutch, German Denoted a person hailing from one of the various places that bore this name in Germany... [more] ACHTERKAMP Dutch Denoted a person hailing from one of the various farms that bore this name in and around Holland... [more] ACKER English, German Denoted a person who lived near a field, derived from Middle English acker or Old High German ackar meaning "field" (related to the word acre). ACONE Italian Possibly from the Latin surname Acone, which came from the toponym Portus Acone in Bitinia (in nowadays Turkey). AGGI Italian Either from place names like Baraggia or variants, or more plausibly from the Germanic name Aggiuo. AGLI Italian From place names like Agliè, Aglietti, Agliana and Agliate, all originating from the Latin name Allius or Alleius. AGTHOVEN Dutch Denoted a person from Agthoven, the Netherlands, which means "eight gardens" from the Dutch agt "eight" and hoven "garden". AIELLO Italian From place names like Aielli, Aiello Calabro, Aiello del Friuli, Aiello del Sabato and many others... [more] AINSLEY Scottish From a place name: either Annesley in Nottinghamshire or Ansley in Warwickshire... [more] AITA Italian Originally denoted a person from Aieta, Italy, a place name derived from Greek aetos "eagle". ALBERO Italian From the Italian albero meaning "tree" (ultimately from Latin arbor), referring to someone who lived in the woods or someone who chopped trees. ALBUQUERQUE Portuguese, Spanish Derived from the Spanish town of Alburquerque, in the Badajoz province near the Portuguese border. ALMEIDA Portuguese Designated a person who had originally lived in one of several villages in Portugal called Almeida... [more] ALTHAUS German Means "dweller by or in the old house" from the German alt "old" and Haus "house"... [more] ALVARADO Spanish Means "dweller by the white hill, or dry land", this is found in many a place name in Spain such as Albarado, Castile. ANHOLTS Dutch Originally denoted a person from Anholt, the Netherlands, meaning "hold still" (a place where people could rest for the night) from the Dutch word anholt. AQUINO Spanish, Italian From the name of an Italian town near Rome: Aquino, the native town of San Tommaso d'Aquino (Saint Thomas Aquinas)... [more] ARAÚJO Portuguese, Spanish Denotes a person hailing from one of the many areas that bear this name in Portugal. ARENDONK Dutch Denoted a person from Arendonk, a town between Antwerp and Turnhout in Belgium... [more] ARMISTEAD English, French Means "dweller by or at the hermitage" from the Old French ermite and the Old English stede. ARRIOLA Spanish, Basque Derived from any of the places named Arriola, from Basque arri "stone(s)" and -ola "place of", for example in the provinces of Gipuzkoa and Araba. ÅRUD Norwegian Means "a river by a clearing" from å or aa meaning "river", and rud, a very old Norwegian word meaning "clearing". ASHLEY English Denotes a person hailing from one of the many places in England which bear this name... [more] ASSENBERG Dutch Possibly from a place called Assenberg, composed of essen and berg, meaning "ash mountain". ASSENDORP Dutch From the name of a place called Assendorp, composed of essen and dorp, meaning "ash tree village". ASTRAUCKAS Lithuanian Of disputed origin, either from the Polish ostrega "dweller by the blackberries", ostry "sharp, keen" or ostrouszek "sharp ear, a type of mixed breed dog". ATELJEVIĆ Serbian From the place name Hatelji, although this place may have got its name from the family. ATTWATER English Means "dweller at the water" from the Middle English at, atte "at" and wæter "water". AUTTENBERG English, German, Polish Possibly means "dweller at Ealdwine's hill" from the Germanic name Ealdwine meaning "old friend" and berg meaning "hill, mountain". AVERESCH Dutch From the place name Averesch, possibly composed of haver and esch, meaning "oat farm land"... [more] BAARDWIJK Dutch From a place name, possibly from Baard's wijk where the given name Baard is from BERT and wijk means "living place". BACH German Topographic name for someone who lived by a stream, from the Middle High German bach, meaning "stream". BAGLEY English Name for someone who lived in a field populated by badgers, from Old English bagga "bag-shaped animal, badger" combined with leah "woodland, clearing". BANCROFT English Habitational name derived from any of various places called Bancroft, derived from Old English bean, meaning "beans" and croft, meaning "paddock, smallholding". BARDSLEY English From the name a village lying between Ashton-under-Lyne and Oldham, in the County of Lancashire, England... [more] BARLOW English Derived from a number of English place names which variously mean "barley hill", "barn hill", "boar clearing" or "barley clearing". BATTLE English From the name of English places called Battle, so named because they were sites of battles. BEASLEY English From the name of a place in Lancashire, from Old English beos "bent grass" and leah "woodland, clearing". BECKET English Derived from the residence of its first bearers at the beckhead, that is at the source of the beck, beck being the Anglo-Saxon word for "brook". BEGBIE Scottish Originates in Scotland, where it is most common in the Edinburgh and East Lothian areas... [more] BENSCOTER Dutch Originally Von Bunschoten, indicating a person from the town of Bunschoten in Holland. BENTLEY English From a place name meaning "clearing covered with bent grass" in Old English... [more] BEYERSDORF German Americanization of what may have been originally Baurnes des Dorf, or "village of the farmers"... [more] BIEBER German, Jewish From Middle High German biber "beaver", German Biber, or Yiddish biber, hence a nickname, possibly a nickname for a hard worker, or from some other fancied resemblance to the animal... [more] BLAIR Scottish From any one of several of this place name in Scotland, which derives from Gaelic blár meaning "plain, field, battlefield". BLOODWORTH English Habitational name from Blidworth in Nottinghamshire, which was named with the Old English given name Blīþa and the Old English worð, which means "enclosure". BLOXHAM English After the Saxon conquest of England, two brothers by the name of Blocc established a town, named Blocc's Hamlet... [more] BODROGI Hungarian Originally denoted someone living near the Bodrog, a river in the northeastern part of Hungary. BONDESAN Italian Venetian regional surname derived from the name of the town of Bondeno, near the well known city of Ferrara, belonging to the district of Rovigo. BOTTERILL Cornish Probably originated from the place name Tibida Boterel in southeast Brittany, thence to Castello Boterel in Cornwall 1284, now Boscastle... [more] BOYCE English From Old French bois meaning "wood", originally given to someone who lived by or in a wood. BRECKENRIDGE Scottish, Irish, English Habitational name for someone from Brackenrig in Lanarkshire, named with the northern Middle English braken, meaning "bracken", (from the Old Norse brækni) and rigg, meaning "ridge" (from the Old Norse hryggr), or from a similarly named place located in northern England. BRENT English Originally derived from an English place name derived from a Celtic word meaning "hill". BRIGHAM English Originally referred to one who came from Brigham (meaning "homestead by the bridge"); the name of places in Cumberland and Yorkshire. BRISTOW English Meaning is believed to be "bright place", from brihs "pleasant, bright" and stow "stead, place"... [more] BROWNLOW English Of Anglo-Saxon origin and is of two parts, brown (descriptive) and lowe (topographical)... [more] BUCKLEY (2) English From an English place name derived from bucca "goat" and leah "woodland, clearing". BUKOWSKI Polish Name for someone who lived in a place called Bukowo, Bukowec or others that began with buk "beech". BURGSTALLER German From German Burg for a "fortress, castle", and from German Stelle, the site of such a castle... [more] BUSTO Spanish, Italian Of locative origin, from the name of towns in Spain and Italy (there are two near Milan in northern Italy: Busto Arsizio and Busto Garolfo, colloquially called Busto Grande "large Busto" and Bustino "little Busto")... [more] |
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Aaldenberg ⇔ Byström Cabral ⇔ Hathaway Hatheway ⇔ Moto Motta ⇔ Sárközy Sarkozy ⇔ Vann Van Nifterick ⇔ Zuñiga |
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