Abbey

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "dweller by the abbey" or "worker at the abbey" from the Middle English abbeye, abbaye.

Abel

Usage: English, French, Danish, Norwegian, Dutch, Spanish, German Extra: Statistics

Derived from the given name Abel.

Abraham

Usage: Dutch, English, French Extra: Statistics

Derived from the given name Abraham.

Abrahams

Usage: Dutch, English Extra: Statistics

Derived from the given name Abraham.

Abrahamson

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "son of Abraham".

Abram

Usage: Dutch, English Extra: Statistics

Variant of Abraham.

Abrams

Usage: Dutch, English Extra: Statistics

Variant of Abrahams.

Abramson

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "son of Abram". The surname can also be viewed as a variant of the surname Abrahamson.

Achilles

Usage: English, Portuguese, German, Dutch Extra: Statistics

Derived from the first name Achilles.

Acker

Usage: English, German Extra: Statistics

Means "field", derived from Old English or Old High German (related to the word acre).

Ackerman

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "ploughman for a manor" from the Middle English acker. Sometimes a variant of Acker.

Adam

Usage: English, French, German, Italian Extra: Statistics

Derived from the given name Adam.

Adams

Usage: Dutch, English Extra: Statistics

Derived from the given name Adam.

Adamson

Usage: English, Scottish Extra: Statistics

Means "son of Adam".

Adcock

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Derived from a diminutive of the given name Adam.

Addison

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "son of Addy", in which Addy was a nickname for Adam.

Aiken

Usage: English, Scottish Extra: Statistics

Derived from the medieval given name Atkin, which was a pet form of Adam.

Ainsworth

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

A habitational name for someone who lived in a place named Ainsworth near Manchester, from the old English personal name Ægen and the Old English worþ, meaning enclosure.

Aitken

Usage: Scottish, English Extra: Statistics

Derived from a diminutive of the given name Adam.

Akerman (1)

Usage: Swedish, English Extra: Statistics

Means "dweller by the cultivated land" from the Middle English, Germanic word acker, Acker "field". In Swedish, it is spelt Åkerman.

Akerman (2)

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Variant of Ackerman.

Akers

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Variant of Acker.

Albert

Usage: Catalan, English, French, Hungarian, German Extra: Statistics

Derived from the given name Albert.

Alberts

Usage: English, Dutch Extra: Statistics

Means "son of Albert".

Albinson

Usage: English, Swedish

Means "son of Alban".

Alexander

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Derived from the given name Alexander.

Alfredson

Usage: English

Means "son of Alfred".

Alfson

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "son of Alf". Alf is a short form of the given name Alfred.

Allard

Usage: English, French

Derived from the given name Æðelred.

Allen

Usage: English, Scottish Extra: Statistics

Derived from the given name Alan.

Allsopp

Usage: English

Derived from the village of Alsop en la Dale in Derbyshire, England. The place name means "Ælli's valley".

Alvey

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Comes from the Anglo-Saxon name Ælfwig meaning "elf battle".

Anderson

Usage: English, Icelandic, Scottish, Swedish Extra: Statistics

Means "son of Andrew".

Andrews

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Derived from the given name Andrew.

Andrewson

Usage: English

Variant of Anderson.

Anson

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "son of Agnes" in Old English.

Anthonyson

Usage: English

Means "son of Anthony".

Appleby

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Referring to someone who lived by or tended an apple orchard.

Appleton

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means simply "apple town".

Archer

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Occupational name for one who practiced archery.

Arkwright

Usage: English

An occupational name for a chest maker, from Middle English, Old French arc which means "chest" or "bin" and the Middle English wright which means "maker" or "craftsman".

Armistead

Usage: English, French Extra: Statistics

Means "dweller by or at the hermitage" from the Old French ermite and the Old English stede.

Arnold

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Derived from the first name Arnold.

Arrington

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From a town originally called Earningaton, meaning "Earna's settlement". Earna was a given name meaning "eagle" in Old English.

Arterberry

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Anglicization of Auttenberg.

Arterbury

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Anglicization of Auttenberg.

Arthur

Usage: English, French Extra: Statistics

From the given name Arthur.

Arthurson

Usage: English, Norwegian, Swedish

Means "son of Arthur".

Ash

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "dweller by the ash trees" from the Old English æsc.

Ashley

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Denotes a person hailing from one of the many places in England which bear this name. The place name itself means "ash tree clearing" from the Old English æsc and l?ah.

Ashworth

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From a place name in Lancashire meaning "ash enclosure" in Old English.

Atkins

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Derived from the name Atkin, a medieval diminutive of Adam.

Atkinson

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "son of Atkin", Atkin being a medieval diminutive of Adam.

Attaway

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

A short of shortening of the words "at the way", denoting someone who lived close to the road.

Atteberry

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Anglicization of Auttenberg.

Atterberry

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Anglicization of Auttenberg.

Attwater

Usage: English

Means "dweller at the water" from the Middle English at, atte "at" and wæter "water".

Auteberry

Usage: English

Anglicization of Auttenberg.

Autenberry

Usage: English

Anglicized form of Auttenberg.

Auttenberg

Usage: English, German, Polish

Possibly means "dweller at Ealdwine's hill, mountain" from the Germanic name meaning "old friend" and berg meaning "hill, mountain.

Avery

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Derived from a Norman French form of the given name Alfred.

Ayers (1)

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "heir" from the Middle English eir.

Ayers (2)

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Derived from the first name Ealhhere which means "temple army" in Old English.

Ayers (3)

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "from Ayr, Scotland".

Ayton

Usage: English

Means "from Ayton (Berwick) or Ayton (Yorkshire), England". Ayton means "farmstead, estate on a river" from the Old English ea "river" and tun "farmstead, estate".

Babcock

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Derived from the medieval name Bab which was possibly a pet form of Bartholomew or Barbara.

Babcocke

Usage: English

Variant of Babcock.

Babcoke

Usage: English

Variant of Babcock.

Backus

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "bakery", an occupational name for a baker, from Old English bacan "to bake" and hus "house".

Badcock

Usage: English

Variant of Babcock.

Badcocke

Usage: English

Variant of Babcock.

Badcoke

Usage: English

Variant of Babcock.

Bagley

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Name for someone who lived in a field populated by badgers, from Old English bagga "bag-shaped animal", "badger" combined with leah "clearing", "field".

Bailey

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "bailiff" from Old French.

Baines (2)

Usage: English

From a nickname for a thin person meaning "bones".

Baker

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Occupational name for a baker, derived from Middle English bakere.

Baldwin

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Derived from the given name Baldwin.

Bancroft

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

A habitational name derived from any of various places called Bancroft, derived from Old English bean, meaning "beans" and croft, meaning "paddock", "smallholding".

Banister

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Meant "basket maker" in Norman French.

Banks

Usage: English

By the Bank.

Barber

Usage: English, Scottish Extra: Statistics

Indicated one who cut hair for a living.

Bardsley

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From the name a village lying between Ashton-under-Lyne and Oldham, in the County of Lancashire, England. It means "Beornred's clearing" in Old English, Beornred being a personal name meaning "warrior counsel".

Barker

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From Middle English bark(en) "to tan", an occupational name for a leather tanner.

Barlow

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Derived from a number of English place names which variously mean "barley hill", "barn" hill", "boar clearing" or "barley clearing".

Barnes

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Denoted a person who worked or lived in a barn. The word barn is derived from Old English bere "barley" combined with oern "house".

Barton

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From a place name meaning "barley town".

Bartram

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From the given name Bertram.

Bass

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

English form of Basso.

Bates

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "son of Batte". Batte was a medieval diminutive of Bartholomew.

Bateson

Usage: English, Scottish Extra: Statistics

Means "son of Batte". Batte was a medieval diminutive of Bartholomew.

Battle

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From the name of English places called Battle, so named because they were sites of battles.

Batts

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From the medieval name Batte, a diminituve of Bartholomew.

Baxter

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Variant (in origin a feminine form) of Baker.

Beake

Usage: English

From a nickname for a person with a big nose, from Middle English beke meaning "beak".

Beasley

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From the name of palce in Lancashire, from Old English beos "bent grass" and leah "wood, clearing".

Beattie

Usage: English, Scottish Extra: Statistics

From the medieval name Battie, a diminituve of Bartholomew.

Beck (2)

Usage: English

From Middle English bekke meaning "stream, brook".

Beck (3)

Usage: English

Variant of Beake.

Beck (4)

Usage: English

From Old English becca "pick-axe", an occupational surname.

Becket

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

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".

Beckett

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Variant of Becket.

Beckham

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From a place name meaning "Becca's homestead".

Belcher

Usage: English

From a Middle English version of Old French bel chiere. This originally meant "fair face", but later came to mean one who had a cheerful and pleasant temperament.

Bell (1)

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "bell" from Middle English belle. It originated as a nickname for a person who lived near the town bell, or who had a job as a bell-ringer.

Bell (2)

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Derived from the given name Bel, a medieval short form of Isabel.

Bellamy

Usage: Norman, French, English

Probably from the Norman French 'bel ami', meaning 'beautiful friend'.

Benbow

Usage: English

Name given to an archer. Nickname "bend the bow" which was later shortened to benbow.

Benjaminson

Usage: English

Means "son of Benjamin".

Bennet

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

An English patronymic surname from the given name Bennet, which comes from Benedict. Bennet was a popular given name during the Middle Ages. It has variations in several languages, and spellings.

Bennett

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Variant of Bennet.

Benson

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "son of Benedict".

Benton

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Denoted someone who came from Benton, England. Benton is the place meaning "bent grass town" in Old English.

Bernard

Usage: French, English, Polish, Czech Extra: Statistics

From the given name Bernard.

Berry

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Derived from a place name which was derived from Old English burh "fortification".

Bird

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

An occupational name for a person who raised or hunted birds.

Bishop

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Of Old English origin, and its meaning is "bishop". Probably originally meant "one serving the bishop".

Black

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means either "black" (from Old English blœc) or "pale" (from Old English blac). It could refer to a person with a pale or a dark comlexion, or a person who worked with black dye.

Blackbourne

Usage: English

Variant of Blackburn.

Blackburn

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "black stream" in Old English.

Blackman

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From a nickname (see Black).

Blackwood

Usage: Scottish, English Extra: Statistics

From an English place name meaning (obviously) "black wood".

Blake

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means either "black" or "pale" in Old English. A famous bearer of the surname was the poet and artist William Blake.

Blakeslee

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From Blakesley, a town in Northamptonshire. The town's name is from Old English Blaecwulves lea meaning "meadow of Blaecwulf (a person's name)".

Bloodworth

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Habitational name from Blidworth in Nottinghamshire, which was named with the Old English personal name Blīþa and the Old English worð, which means "enclosure".

Bloxam

Usage: English

Variant of Bloxham.

Bloxham

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

After the Saxon conquest of England, two brothers by the name of Blocc established a town, named Blocc's Hamlet. Over the years, it became Bloxham (it's current name, in Oxfordshire, England).

Blue

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From a nickname for a person with blue eyes or blue clothing.

Blythe

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From Old English meaning "happy" or "joyous".

Boivin

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

A nickname for a wine drinker, from Old French boi, a form of the verb boivre "to drink", and vin "wine".

Bolton

Usage: English

From any of the places in England called Bolton, meaning "house settlement".

Bond

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

An occupational name for a peasant farmer, from Middle English bonde.

Bonham

Usage: English

Derived from Old French bon homme "good man".

Bonher

Usage: English

Variant of Bonner.

Bonner

Usage: English, French Extra: Statistics

The family name of Bonner is of Norman-French origin with the original Bonners arriving in Britain during the Norman Conquest in the 11th century. There have been numerous spellings of the name, of which all have the meaning or key "good".

Bonney

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Variant of Bonner.

Boon (1)

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Variant of Bone, which either meant "good" from the Old French bon or "thin, bony" from the Old English ban.

Boon (2)

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "from Bohon, La Manche".

Boone

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Variant of Boon (1) and Boon (2). This spelling is more common in the USA.

Booner

Usage: English

Variant of Bonner.

Boothman

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Name for a man who was associated with a both, Middle English meaning "hut".

Botwright

Usage: English

Derived from the English "boatwright," meaning "maker of boats." It is a common name in Suffolk, England.

Bourke

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Variant of Burke.

Boyce

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From Old French bois meaning "wood", originally given to someone who lived by or in a wood.

Braddock

Usage: English

Old English meaning "broad oak". Adopted by those living in the town Broad Oak in southern England.

Bradford

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Derived from a place name which meant "broad ford" in Old English.

Bradley

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From a common English place name meaning "broad clearing".

Brams

Usage: Dutch, English

Derived from the given name Bram.

Bramson

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "son of Bram".

Brasher

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "brass worker", derived from Old English brœs "brass".

Brassington

Usage: English

From a place name, meaning "enclosure by a steep path".

Bray

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From a place name derived from Cornish bre "hill".

Breckenridge

Usage: Scottish, Irish, English Extra: Statistics

A 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.

Breckinridge

Usage: Scottish, English Extra: Statistics

Variant of Breckenridge.

Brent

Usage: English

Originally derived from an English place name derived from a Celtic word meaning "hill".

Brewer

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Occupational name for a maker of ale or beer.

Brewster

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Variant of Brewer, originally a feminine form of the occupational term.

Brigham

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Originally referred to one who came from Brigham (meaning "homestead by the bridge"); the name of places in Cumberland and Yorkshire.

Bristol

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From the name of a city in England.

Bristow

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Meaning is believed to be "bright place", from brihs "pleasant, bright" and stow "stead, place". However, it is also said by some that the surname derives from the old spelling of bridge by the river Stowe, and that the surname was thus given to people that lived near or under the bridge of the river Stowe. Yet another possibility is that it was a nickname given to a person from Bristol (which means "the site of the bridge") in Gloucestershire (southwest England).

Britton

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Originally given to a person who was a Briton (a Celt of England) or a Breton (an inhabitant of Brittany).

Broadbent

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From an English place name meaning "broad bent grass".

Brock

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From a Middle English nickname meaning "badger".

Brooks

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Denoted a person who lived near a brook, a word derived from Old English broc.

Brown

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Originally a nickname for a person who had brown hair or skin.

Brownlow

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

The name Brownlow is of Anglo-Saxon origin and is of two parts, brown (descriptive) and lowe (topographical). Lowe derives from Old English hlaw meaning "a small hill", and so the name was possibly given to a family living on a small hill covered with bracken, giving it a brown colour.

Bryant

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From the given name Brian.

Bryson

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "son of Brice".

Buckley (1)

Usage: English, French Extra: Statistics

Originated from the Norman surname Beauclerc meaning "beautiful or fair clergyman".

Buckley (2)

Usage: English

From an English place name derived from bucca "goat" and leah "field, clearing".

Bullard

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Occupational name for a scribe, derived from Middle English bulle "letter".

Bulle

Usage: Dutch, English Extra: Statistics

Variant of Bul.

Bullock

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From a nickname meaning "young bull".

Bunker

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Derived from Norman French de Bon Coer meaning "of a good heart".

Burke

Usage: English, Irish Extra: Statistics

Derived from Middle English burk, meaning "fort or fortified town". It was brought to Ireland in the 12th century by the Norman invader William FitzAdelm de Burgo.

Burnham

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Derived from Burnham, a town in Norfolk and Essex, England. Means "homestead by the river" from the Old English burna "stream" and ham "homestead".

Burns (1)

Usage: English, Scottish Extra: Statistics

Derived from Old English burne "stream". Famous bearers include poet Robert Burns, comedian George Burns and fictional character C. Montgomery Burns (from the cartoon show "The Simpsons").

Burrell

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

This was the name of a type of cloth. So it is probably a name for someone who dealt in that material.

Burton

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

English placename derived from the Old English meaning "fortified town".

Bush

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Given to a person who lived in or near bushes.

Butcher

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Occupational name for a butcher, derived from Old French bouchier.

Butler

Usage: English, Irish Extra: Statistics

The surname comes from the Middle English word botte, which means "a vat or large trough used to contain wine". A butler (from Middle English boteler) was the servant in charge of the botts. A famous bearer of this surname is the fictional character of Rhett Butler, created by Margaret Mitchell for her novel 'Gone With The Wind'.

Butts

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From a nickname meaning "short, stumpy".

Byrd

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Variant of Bird.

Cannon

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From the ecclestical usage of canon, referring to a church official.

Cantrell

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

A habitational name for someone from Cantrell in Devon, from an unknown first element and the Old English hyll, meaning "hill".

Carl

Usage: English, Dutch Extra: Statistics

From the given name Charles.

Carlisle

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Although the origin of the 'ancient and famous city of Carlisle', is lost in the uncertainties of antiquity, historians are agreed that it was a place of importance in the time of the Romans. Its ancient British name is supposed to have been Llugyda-gwal, which meant the "army by the wall"; the Romans called it Luguvallum, and in Bede's life of St. Cuthbert, it is called Luguballa. Whitaker says that Lugu-vall-ium signifies "forts on the water". The Roman name Luguvallum was afterwards abbreviated by the Saxons to Luell, which, combined with the Saxon word Caer "city", became Caer-Luell, whence is derived its present name. Nowadays, the city of Carlisle is located in the country of Cumbria in England.

Carlyle

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Variant of Carlisle.

Carpenter

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From the occupation, derived from Middle English carpentier (ultimately from Latin carpentarius meaning "carriage maker").

Carter

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Occupational name for a person who operated a cart to transport goods, from Norman French cartier.

Cartwright

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Occupational name indicating one who made carts.

Carver (1)

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

English surname meaning "sculptor".

Caulfield

Usage: English

From a place name, meaning "cold field".

Causer

Usage: English

Occupational name for one who made leggings, derived from Old French chausse "leggings".

Causey

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Indicated a person who lived near a causeway, from Middle English caucey.

Chamberlain

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Occupational name for one who looked after the master bedroom, from Norman French cambre "chamber, room".

Chance

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From a nickname for a lucky person or a gambler.

Chancellor

Usage: English, Scottish Extra: Statistics

Occupational name for an administrator, a chancellor, from Norman French chancelier.

Chandler

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Occupational surname meaning "candle seller" or "candle maker" in Middle English, ultimately derived from Old French.

Chapman

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

An occupational name for a merchant, from Old English ceapmann.

Chase

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "woods particularly suitable for hunting" from the Old French word chaceur "hunter".

Cheshire

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "from Cheshire, England".

Christians

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Derived from the given name Christian.

Christianson

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "son of Christian".

Christinsen

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Variant of Christianson.

Christinson

Usage: English

Variant of Christianson.

Christisen

Usage: English

Variant of Christianson.

Christison

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Variant of Christianson.

Christopher

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Derived from the given name Christopher.

Christophers

Usage: English

Derived from the given name Christopher.

Christopherson

Usage: English

Means "son of Christopher".

Church

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From the English word, probably referred to a person who lived close to a church.

Clark

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "cleric" or "scholar" in Old English. A famous bearer was William Clark, an explorer of the west of North America.

Clarke

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Variant of Clark.

Clarkson

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

It is the English patronymic form of Clark.

Clausson

Usage: English

Means "son of Claus".

Clawson

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Variant of Clausson.

Clayton

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "clay settlement", from a place name.

Clemens

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Derived from the given name Clement. This was the surname of the famous Samuel Clemens, a.k.a. Mark Twain.

Clifford

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Derived from a place name which meant "ford by a cliff" in Old English.

Cline

Usage: English

Anglicized spelling of Klein.

Clinton

Usage: English, Irish Extra: Statistics

Derived from a place name meaning "settlement on the summit" in Old English.

Close

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

It's a 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.

Coburn

Usage: Scottish, English Extra: Statistics

Variant of Cockburn.

Cock

Usage: English

Variant of Cox.

Cockburn

Usage: Scottish, English Extra: Statistics

Name for someone who came from Cockburn, a place in Berwickshire. The name of Cockburn comes from Old English cocc (see Cox) combined with burna "stream".

Cocks

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Variant of Cox.

Coel

Usage: English

Variant of Cole (1).

Coke

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Variant of Cook.

Cokes (1)

Usage: English

Derived from the Middle English hypocoristic suffix -coke(s) which meant "cockerel" possibly denoting someone who strutted around like a cockerel. It was commonly attached to the end of short forms of medieval names eg. Hancock, Alcock.

Cokes (2)

Usage: English

Derived from the Flemish word cok which denoted a cook.

Cole (1)

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "black" in Old English.

Cole (2)

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Derived from a diminutive of Nicholas.

Coleman

Usage: Irish, English Extra: Statistics

From the given name Colmán.

Collingwood

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

The name means "coal forest". It comes from the Old English words col and wudu.

Collins (2)

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "son of Colin", where Colin is a diminutive of Nicholas.

Combs

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

The name is Old English from a Celtic root and means "valley", many place names all over England (mostly in the south, like Cornwall and Susex) take the name. As the name comes from a non-specific geographical term, the Celtic meaning does not prove Celtic ancestory. Normans or Anglo-Saxons may have taken the name after settling.

Comstock

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From the river Culm in Devon, England. Seen in the Domesday book as Culmstoke or Colmstoke. A Colmstoke is buried in St. Martins of the Field cemetary in England.

Constable

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From the Latin comes stabuli, the "count or officer of the stable". By the time it had reached France it had become Cunestable, and as such was brought to England. A little later the term was applied to a military officer.

Cook

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Derived from Old English coc, which means "cook". It is the occupational name for the cook, the man who sold cooked meats, or the keeper of an eating house.

Cooke

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Variant of Cook.

Cookson

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

It is the English patronymic form of Cook.

Coombs

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Variant of Combs.

Cooper

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "barrel maker" in Middle English.

Corra

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Variant of Coiro.

Cotterill

Usage: English

Derived from the occupation then known as cotter or cotier, which means "cottager"; that is, a farming small land owner.

Cowden

Usage: English, Scottish Extra: Statistics

From various place names meaning either "coal valley", "coal hill", or "cow pasture" in Old English.

Cox

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

A surname derived from the medieval nickname cok, which meant "rooster". The nickname was commonly added to given names to create such pet forms as Hancock and Alcock.

Crawford

Usage: English, Irish, Scottish Extra: Statistics

From a place name derived from Old English crawa "crow" and ford "river crossing".

Crewe

Usage: English, Welsh Extra: Statistics

Name for someone from Crewe in Chesire, which comes from Welsh criu "weir".

Cristians

Usage: English

Variant of Christians.

Cristiansen

Usage: English

Variant of Cristianson.

Cristianson

Usage: English

Variant of Christianson.

Croft

Usage: English, Scottish Extra: Statistics

This is an Old English term that refers to a small pasture near a house.

Cropper

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Occupational name referring to a fruit picker or a crop reaper.

Cross

Usage: English

A locative surname meaning "cross". It denoted one who lived near a cross symbol, or near a crossroads.

Crouch

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Variant of Cross.

Cummins

Usage: English, Scottish, Irish Extra: Statistics

Means "descendant of Cuimin", a Breton name meaning "little bent one".

Curtis

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Nickname for a courteous person from Old French curteis meaning "refined".

Dalton

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Derived from a place name which meant "valley town" in Old English. A notable bearer of the surname was John Dalton, the English chemist and physicist who theorized about the existence of atoms.

Danell

Usage: English

Variant of Daniel.

Daniel

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Derived from the given name Daniel.

Daniell

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Variant of Daniel.

Daniels

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Variant of Daniel.

Danielson

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "son of Daniel".

Dannel

Usage: English

Variant of Daniel.

Danniel

Usage: English

Variant of Daniel.

Danniell

Usage: English

Variant of Daniel.

Darby

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From the name of the town Derby, meaning "deer farm".

Daugherty

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Of Norman origin meaning "from Hauterive", a place name derived from Old French haute rive "high bank".

David

Usage: English, French, Scottish, Jewish, Czech Extra: Statistics

From the given name David.

Davidson

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "son of David".

Davies

Usage: English, Welsh Extra: Statistics

Variant of Davis.

Davis

Usage: English, Scottish Extra: Statistics

Derived from the given name David. This was the surname of the revolutionary jazz trumpet player, Miles Davis.

Davison

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "son of David".

Dawson

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Derived from the given name David.

Day

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From a pet name derived from David.

Deadman

Usage: English

Trade name for a grave digger.

Dean (1)

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "valley" from Old English denu.

Dean (2)

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

An occupational surname meaning "dean", referring to a person who either was a dean or worked for one.

Deering

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From the Old English given name Deora meaning "dear, beloved".

Denman

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Variant of Deadman.

Dennel

Usage: English

Variant of Daniel.

Dennell

Usage: English

Variant of Daniel.

Derrick

Usage: English, German Extra: Statistics

Derived from the given name Derrick, which is a form of Derek. A famous bearer of this surname is the character of Stephan Derrick (played by Horst Tappert), the lead character in the German Krimi-series 'Derrick'.

Derricks

Usage: English

Derived from the given name Derrick.

Derrickson

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "son of Derrick".

Dexter

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Occupational name meaning "dyer" in Old English (once referred only to female dyers).

Dick

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From the given name Dick, which is a medieval short form of Richard.

Dickens

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Variant of Dick. A famous bearer of this surname is the English writer Charles Dickens (1812-1870).

Dickenson

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "son of Dickin or Dickon", diminutives of Dick.

Dickinson

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "son of Dickin or Dickon", diminutives of Dick. Poet Emily Dickinson was a famous bearer.

Dickman

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From Old English diche "ditch" combined with man "man". Originally a name for a ditch digger or someone who lived near a ditch.

Dickson

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "son of Dick".

Disney

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

An Anglicized form of D'Isigny meaning "one who is from the canton of Isigny" located in France.

Dixon

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "son of Richard".

Donalds

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Derived from the given name Donald.

Donaldson

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "son of Donald".

Downer

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

English, someone who lived on or near a down, which is an old word for a hill.

Draper

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Occupational name for a maker or seller of woolen cloth, from Anglo-Norman French draper (Old French drapier, an agent derivative of drap "cloth").

Duke

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From the noble title, which was originally from Latin dux "leader".

Dukeson

Usage: English

Means "son of the Duke".

Dwerryhouse

Usage: English

Means "dweller at the dwarf-house" from Middle English dwerugh or Old English dweorh, "a dwarf", and Middle English hous or Old English hus.

Dyer

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "one who dyes", as in a cloth dyer.

Eads

Usage: English, Scottish Extra: Statistics

Means "son of Adam or Eda". Eda is a medieval short form of Edith.

Earl

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From the aristocratic title, which derives from Old English eorl, which means "nobleman, warrior".

Earls

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Variant of Earl.

Earlson

Usage: English

Means "son of Earl".

Easom

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Variant of Eason.

Eason

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Variant of Eads.

Eaton

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Name for someone who lived near a river or low land, from Old English ea "river", "low-lying land" combined with tun "town", "settlement".

Eccleston

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "from Eccleston, England". Eccleston means "church in an enclosure".

Ecclestone

Usage: English

Variant of Eccleston.

Edison

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

The meaning is "son of Edward". Borne by American inventor Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931).

Edwards

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Derived from the given name Edward.

Edwardson

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "son of Edward".

Elder

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Derived from Old English ealdra meaning "older", used to distinguish two people who had the same name.

Eldridge

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Derived from the middle English given name Eldric, a variant of Aldrick.

Elliot

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Derived from the given name Elias.

Ellison

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

A patronymic form of the English name Ellis, from the medieval given name Elis, a vernacular form of Elijah.

Ellisson

Usage: English

Variant of Ellison.

Elliston

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Variant of Ellison.

Ellsworth

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

A habitational surname for a person from Elsworth, Cambridgeshire.

Elmerson

Usage: English, Norwegian, Swedish

Means "son of Elmer".

Ely

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From the name of a town in eastern England meaning "eel district".

Emerson

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "son of Emery". This surname was borne by Ralph Waldo Emerson, a 19th-century American poet and author who wrote about transcendentalism.

Endicott

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "from the end cottage".

English

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Denoted a person who was of English heritage. It was used to distinguish people who lived in border areas (for example, near Wales or Scotland). It was also used to distinguish an Anglo-Saxon from a Norman.

Ericson

Usage: English, Swedish Extra: Statistics

Means "son of Eric".

Espenson

Usage: English

Means "son of Espen". Espen is a Norwegian given name, which means "divine bear".

Ethans

Usage: English

Derived from the given name Ethan.

Ethanson

Usage: English

Means "son of Ethan".

Eustis

Usage: English, French Extra: Statistics

Derived from the given name Eustace.

Evanson

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "son of Evan".

Evered

Usage: English

From the given name Everard.

Fabian

Usage: English, French, Polish Extra: Statistics

Derived from the given name Fabian.

Fairbairn

Usage: Scottish, English Extra: Statistics

Means "beautiful child" in Middle English.

Fairburn

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From a place name which meant "fern stream", from Old English fearn "fern" and burna "stream".

Fairchild

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "beautiful child" in Middle English.

Fairclough

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From Old English, meaning "fair cliff".

Farnham

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "from Farnham, England".

Faulkner

Usage: English, Scottish Extra: Statistics

Old English for "falconeer".

Fay

Usage: French, English Extra: Statistics

Refers to one who came from Fay or Faye (meaning "beech tree") in France.

Fear

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From an Old English nickname feare meaning "friend".

Fenn

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From a name for someone who dwelled near a marsh, from the Middle English fenn, meaning "marsh" or "bog".

Firmin

Usage: English, French Extra: Statistics

From the given name Firmin.

Fisher

Usage: English, Jewish Extra: Statistics

Cognate of Fischer.

Fishman

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Occupational name for a fisherman.

Fitzroy

Usage: English

Means "son of the king" in Anglo-Norman French, from the French roi meaning "king".

Fleming

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

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

Fletcher

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "fletcher," someone who attaches feather flights to the shaft of an arrow. It also refers to a seller of arrows.

Ford

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

A name given to someone who lived by a ford, possibly the official who maintained it.

Forester

Usage: English, French Extra: Statistics

Denoted a keeper or one in charge of a forest, or one who has charge of growing timber in a forest. Originally in the Latin Forestarius, then the French Forester, then Forster and Foster in England.

Forney

Usage: English, Scottish Extra: Statistics

Name for someone who lived around ferns, from Middle English fern "fern" and heye "enclosure".

Foss

Usage: English, French Extra: Statistics

Derived from Old French fosse "ditch".

Foster

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Variant of Forester.

Fox

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From the name of the animal. Originally a nickname for a person with red hair or a crafty person.

Frank (1)

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Derived from the given name Frank.

Frank (2)

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From Old English franc meaning "free".

Franklin

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "a land-owner of free but not noble birth" from Anglo-French fraunclein. Probably related to Old French franc meaning "free".

Freeman

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Referred to a person who was born free, or in other words was not a serf.

Frost

Usage: English, German Extra: Statistics

Old English and Old High German. From a nickname for a person who had a cold personality or a white beard.

Fry

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Root is from the Old English word frig meaning "free". In 1970 it was estimated that there were some 37,000 bearers of the name Fry in America.

Frye

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Variant of Fry.

Fuller

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Occupational surname for a fuller. In old England fullers would soften a course material by pounding it.

Gabriels

Usage: English

Derived from the given name Gabriel.

Gabrielson

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "son of Gabriel".

Gardenar

Usage: English

Variant of Gardener (1).

Gardener (1)

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Occupational surname for one who was a gardener.

Gardener (2)

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Possibly derived from the Saxon words gar meaning "a weapon", and dyn meaning "sound, alarm", combined with the termination er.

Gardiner

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Variant of Gardener (1).

Gardner

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Variant of Gardener (1).

Gardyner

Usage: English

Variant of Gardener (1).

Garner

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

This surname can be a shortened form of the Gardner surname, but it can also be a Middle English surname meaning "to gather grain" or "granary keeper".

Garrard

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From the given name Gerard.

Garrod

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Derived from the given name Gerald. Appears to be most commonly found in the southeast of England.

Georgeson

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "son of George".

Gibb

Usage: Scottish, English Extra: Statistics

Derived from the given name Gib.

Gibbs

Usage: Scottish, English Extra: Statistics

Means "Gib's son", where Gib is a diminutive of Gilbert.

Gibson

Usage: Scottish, English Extra: Statistics

Means "son of Gib".

Gilbert

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Derived from the the given name Gilbert.

Giles

Usage: English, French Extra: Statistics

From the given name Giles.

Gilliam

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Variant of William. Famous holders of the name include cartoonist and filmmaker Terry Gilliam.

Glover

Usage: English

Means "a person who made or sold gloves" from Middle English glovere.

Godfrey

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From the Norman personal name Godefrei, Godefroi(s) (see Godfrey).

Goffe

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Derived from Breton goff "smith" and referred to a worker in metals.

Goode

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From a nickname meaning "good", referring to a kindly person.

Gorbold

Usage: English

It means "son of Gerbold", a personal name of Saxon origin.

Gore

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From the Old English word gara meaning "a triangular plot of land".

Granger

Usage: English, French Extra: Statistics

Means "a farm bailiff" from Old French grangier, ultimitely from Latin granum meaning "grain". It can be recalled from the Harry Potter novels from Harry's good friend Hermione Granger.

Grant

Usage: English, Scottish Extra: Statistics

Derived from Norman French meaning "grand, tall, big, great".

Gray

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

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

Green

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

A descriptive name for someone who often wore the colour green or someone who lived near the village green.

Greene

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Variant of Green.

Gregory

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From the same given name that was popular throughout the Christian countries during the Middle Ages, Gregory.

Grey

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Variant of Gray.

Griffin

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From the mythological beast with body of a lion with head and wings of an eagle. From the Greek gryps, ultimately of Assyrian origin.

Groves

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From Old English graf "grove". This originally indicated a person who lived near a grove (a group of trees).

Gully

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

A nickname for a big person, from Middle English golias meaning "giant" (ultimately from Goliath, the Philistine warrior who was slain by David in the Old Testament).

Hackett

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From a diminutive of the medieval given name Hake, which was of Old Norse origin and meant "hook".

Hadaway

Usage: English

Variant of Hathaway.

Haggard

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From a descriptive nickname meaning "wild, untamed, worn".

Haight

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

A name given to someone that lived at the top of a hill.

Hale

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Derived from Old English healh meaning "nook, hollow".

Hall

Usage: Danish, English, German, Norwegian, Swedish Extra: Statistics

Means simply "hall", given to one who either lived in or worked in a hall (the house of a medieval noble).

Hallman

Usage: English, Swedish Extra: Statistics

Occupational variant of Hall.

Hambledon

Usage: English, Scottish

Variant of Hamilton.

Hambleton

Usage: English, Scottish Extra: Statistics

Variant of Hamilton.

Hameldon

Usage: English, Scottish

Variant of Hamilton.

Hamilton

Usage: English, Scottish Extra: Statistics

From an English or Scottish place name, derived from its elements hamil, which means "treeless hill", and tun, which means "settlement". The literal translation of the surname would be "treeless hill town".

Hamm

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "river meadow" in Old English.

Hampson

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "son of Hamo".

Hampton

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From the name of a town in England, meaning "homestead farm".

Hancock

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From a diminutive of the medieval name Han (see John). Early records reveal a Hanecock from the county of Yorkshire who appeard in the Hundred Rolls in the year 1273.

Hanley

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "high meadow" in Old English.

Hanson

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "son of Han", Han being a medieval form of John.

Harden

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From a place name meaning "hare valley" in Old English.

Hardwick

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From Old English heorde "herd" and wic "farm".

Hardy

Usage: English, French Extra: Statistics

From Old French hardi meaning "bold, daring".

Harford

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Habitational name from places called Harford, in Gloucestershire and Devon, meaning "hart ford".

Hargrave

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Derived from the Old English elements har meaning "gray" and graefe "thicket".

Harley

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Derives from the Old English hara lea, where hara means "hare" and lea or ley means "open land, clearing or field". Thus the surname means "one who lives near the hare's field".

Harlow

Usage: English

A habitational name derived from a number of locations named Harlow, from the Old English hær meaning "rock" or here, meaning "army", "assembly".

Harman

Usage: English, French, German Extra: Statistics

Variant of Hermann.

Harmon

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Variant of Hermann.

Haroldson

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "son of Harold".

Harper

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Originally belonged to a person who played the harp or who made harps.

Harrell

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From the given name Harold.

Harrelson

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Variant of Haroldson. A famous bearer of this surname is the American actor Woody Harrelson.

Harris

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Derived from the first name Harry.

Harrison

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Derived from the given name Harry.

Hart

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "a male deer". Originally acquired by a person who owned harts, lived in a place frequented by harts, or bore some resemblance to a hart.

Hartell

Usage: English

A diminutive of either hardt as in "hardy, tough"; or hart, "male deer". Thus, "little tough one", or "little buck". There is a story of two brothers named Hartell having a dispute shortly after the Civil War. One kept the name as Hartell, the other moved away and changed his name to Hartle, with the accent moved to "hart". Supposedly this is the origin of the variant Hartle.

Harvey

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From the Breton given name Haerviu, which meant "battle worthy" from Breton haer "battle" and viu "worthy". The name was introduced to England by Breton settlers after the Norman Conquest.

Hathaway

Usage: English

Habitational name for someone who lived across a heath, by a path, from the Middle English hathe "heath" and weye "way".

Hatheway

Usage: English

Variant of Hathaway.

Hathoway

Usage: English

Variant of Hathaway.

Haward

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Variant of Howard or Hayward.

Hawk

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Originally a nickname for a person who had a hawk-like appearance or who acted in a fierce manner.

Hawking

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From a diminutive of Hawk.

Hawkins

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

A patronymic surname derived from a diminutive of Hawk.

Hayward

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Occupational name for a person who protected an enclosed forest. Middle English hay "enclosure" and ward "guard".

Haywood

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Derived from a place name meaning "fenced wood" in Old English.

Head (1)

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From Middle English hed, from Old English heafod; akin to Old High German houbit and Latin caput (both meaning "head"). The surname is occupational and describes the one in charge of a division or department in an office or institution -> headmaster.

Head (2)

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Referred originally to a person who lived at the head of a river or on a hilltop.

Heath

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Originally belonged to a person who was a dweller on the heath or open land.

Henderson

Usage: English, Scottish Extra: Statistics

Derived from the given name Henry.

Hendry

Usage: Scottish, English Extra: Statistics

Derived from the given name Henry.

Henryson

Usage: English

Means "son of Henry". A bearer of this surname was the poet Robert Henryson (1425-1500).

Henson

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "son of Henne", Henne being a diminutive of Henry.

Hepburn

Usage: Scottish, English Extra: Statistics

From a place name meaning "high burial mound" in Old English. Famous bearers of the name include Hollywood actresses Katherine Hepburn and Audrey Hepburn. Mary Queen of Scot's infamous third husband James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwall, also bore the name.

Herbert

Usage: Dutch, English, French, German Extra: Statistics

Derived from the male given name Herbert.

Herberts

Usage: Dutch, English

Variant of Herbert.

Herbertson

Usage: English, Norwegian, Swedish

Means "son of Herbert".

Hermanson

Usage: English, Norwegian, Swedish Extra: Statistics

Means "son of Herman".

Hewitt

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Derived from a diminutive of the given name Hugh.

Hext

Usage: English

From a nickname meaning "tallest" in Middle English. It is most commom in the southeast of England in the county of Devon.

Hibbert

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Derived from the given name Hilbert.

Hicks

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Derived from the medieval given name Hicke, a diminutive of Richard.

Hightower

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Originally designated a dweller near a tall tower or spire.

Hill

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

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

Hillam

Usage: English

Originally Hillham, meaning "hamlet on the hill".

Hilton

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

It refers to a settlement (meaning "hill town") where the original bearer of the name lived. Famous bearers of this name include the Hilton family of hotel heirs.

Hobbes

Usage: English

A variant of Hobbs. A famous bearer of this name was British political philospher Thomas Hobbes, the author of "Leviathan".

Hobbs

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Derived from the medieval given name Hobb, a diminutive of Robert.

Hobson

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "son of Hobb". Hobb was a medieval diminutive of Robert.

Hodges

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

A patronymic of Hodge, a medieval form of Roger.

Hodson

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Means "son of Hodge". Hodge was a medieval form of Roger.

Hogarth

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

From a place name meaning "hog pen". It's first recorded in North Yorkshire.

Hollands

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Derived from any of the eight villages named Holland, located in the counties of Essex, Lancaster and Lincoln, England. The name of the villages means "ridge land" in Old English.

Hollins

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Refers to someone living by a holly tree. The name originates from Cheshire in the North of England.

Holme

Usage: English, Scottish Extra: Statistics

Refers either to someone living by an island in a fen (from northern Middle English holm) or near a holly tree (Middle English holm).

Holmes

Usage: English, Scottish Extra: Statistics

Variant of Holme.

Holmwood

Usage: English

Old English meaning "holly wood" or from a place name in Derby or Surrey.

Holt

Usage: Dutch, Danish, English, Norwegian Extra: Statistics

Means "a wood" or "grove" in Old English or German.

Honeycutt

Usage: English

Derived from the name of the English town Hunnacott. The name of the town probably derives from Old English hunig "honey", cot "cottage".

Honeysett

Usage: English

An English surname of Walloon origin, derived from a pet form of the name Johannes (Hanosse).

Hooker

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Originally applied to one who lived near a spur, river bend, or corner of some natural feature.

Hooper

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

An occupational name for someone who put the metal hoops around wooden barrels.

Hope

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Derived from Middle English hop "small valley".

Hopkins

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Patronymic formed from a diminutive of Hobb, a medieval nickname for Robert.

Hopper

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Referred to a person who hopped. The name was given to professional acrobats or gymnasts at a fair. It may also have been given to those who were nervous or fidgety and therefore moved about a lot. A famous bearer is American actor Denis Hopper.

Hopson

Usage: English Extra: Statistics

Variant of Hobson.

Horn (1)

Usage: English, German, Norwegian, Danish Extra: Statistics

Occupational name for one who carved objects out of horn.

Horn (2)

Usage: English, German, Norwegian, Danish Extra: Statistics

Occupational name for one who played a horn.