Previous Names of the Day

Rademaker   Dutch
From the occupation of rademaker meaning "maker of wheels", from Dutch rad meaning "wheel".

Botterill   English
Probably indicated someone from the town of Les Bottereaux in Normandy, itself derived from Old French bot "toad".

Pittaluga   Italian
Originally a nickname for somebody who steals grapes from vineyards. In the Genoese dialect pittà means "to pick" and uga means "grapes" (uva in Italian).

Watson   English, Scottish
Patronymic derived from the Middle English given name Wat or Watt, a diminutive of the name Walter.

Vilar   Portuguese, Galician, Catalan
Means "hamlet, farm" in Portuguese, Galician and Catalan, from Late Latin villare, a derivative of Latin villa.

Petit   French, Catalan, English
Means "small, little" derived from Old French and Catalan petit. It was perhaps used for a short, small person or to denote the younger of two individuals.

Vass   Hungarian
Derived from Hungarian vas meaning "iron", referring to a worker in iron, a miner of iron ore or a vendor of iron goods. Alternatively, from the same root word, it may have been a nickname referring to one with a distinctively strong constitution.