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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] 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). AINSWORTH English Habitational name for someone who lived in a place named Ainsworth near Manchester, from the Old English given name Ægen and worþ meaning "enclosure". ARKWRIGHT English Occupational name for a chest maker, from Middle English arc meaning "chest, bin" and wright meaning "maker, craftsman". ARMISTEAD English, French Means "dweller by or at the hermitage" from the Old French ermite and the Old English stede. ASHLEY English Denotes a person hailing from one of the many places in England which bear this name... [more] 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". BABCOCK English Derived from the medieval name Bab which was possibly a diminutive of BARTHOLOMEW or BARBARA. BACKUS English Means "bakery", an occupational name for a baker, from Old English bacan "to bake" and hus "house". 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". BAILEY English From Middle English baili meaning "bailiff", which comes via Old French from Latin baiulus "porter". BANCROFT English Habitational name derived from any of various places called Bancroft, derived from Old English bean, meaning "beans" and croft, meaning "paddock, smallholding". BANNER English Occupational name for a flag carrier, derived from Old French baniere meaning "banner", ultimately of Germanic origin. 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". BARRETT English Derived from Middle English meaning "dispute", originally given to a quarrelsome person. 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". BENNET English English patronymic surname from the given name Bennet, which comes from BENEDICT... [more] BENTLEY English From a place name meaning "clearing covered with bent grass" in Old English... [more] BISHOP English Means simply "bishop", ultimately from Greek επισκοπος (episkopos) meaning "overseer"... [more] BLACK English Means either "black" (from Old English blœc) or "pale" (from Old English blac)... [more] 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] BOIVIN English Nickname for a wine drinker, from Old French boi, a form of the verb boivre "to drink", and vin "wine". BONNER English, French Of Norman French origin with the original Bonners arriving in Britain during the Norman Conquest in the 11th century... [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] BRITTON English Originally given to a person who was a Briton (a Celt of England) or a Breton (an inhabitant of Brittany). BROWNLOW English Of Anglo-Saxon origin and is of two parts, brown (descriptive) and lowe (topographical)... [more] BUCKLEY (1) English, French Originated from the Norman surname Beauclerc meaning "beautiful or fair clergyman". BUCKLEY (2) English From an English place name derived from bucca "goat" and leah "woodland, clearing". BUTLER English, Irish From the Middle English word botte, which means "a vat or large trough used to contain wine"... [more] CANTRELL English Habitational name for someone from Cantrell in Devon, from an unknown first element and the Old English hyll, meaning "hill". CARMAN (1) English, Dutch Occupational name for a carter, from Middle English car "cart" and man "man". CARPENTER English From the occupation, derived from Middle English carpentier (ultimately from Latin carpentarius meaning "carriage maker"). CARTER English Occupational name for a person who operated a cart to transport goods, from Norman French cartier. CAUSER English Occupational name for one who made leggings, derived from Old French chausse "leggings". CHAMBERLAIN English Occupational name for one who looked after the master bedroom, from Norman French cambre "chamber, room". CHANCELLOR English, Scottish Occupational name for an administrator, a chancellor, from Norman French chancelier. CHANDLER English Occupational surname meaning "candle seller" or "candle maker" in Middle English, ultimately derived from Old French. CLARK English Means "cleric" or "scribe", from Old English clerec meaning "priest", ultimately from Latin clericus... [more] CLAY English Means simply "clay", originally referring to a person who lived near or worked with of clay. CLOSE English Topographic name for someone who lived by an enclosure of some sort, such as (in towns), a courtyard set back from the main street or (in county districts) a farmyard. COCKBURN Scottish, English Name for someone who came from Cockburn, a place in Berwickshire... [more] COKES (1) English Derived from the Middle English hypocoristic suffix -coke(s) which meant "cockerel" possibly denoting someone who strutted around like a cockerel... [more] COTTERILL English Derived from the occupation then known as cotter or cotier, which means "cottager"; that is, a farming small land owner. COURTENAY (1) English From the name of towns in France which were originally derivatives of the Gallo-Roman personal name Curtenus, itself derived from Latin curtus "short". COWDEN English, Scottish From various place names meaning either "coal valley", "coal hill", or "cow pasture" in Old English. CUMMINS English, Scottish, Irish Means "descendent of Cuimin", a Breton name meaning "little bent one". |
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