Browse Submitted Surnames

This is a list of submitted surnames in which the person who added the name is hkols.
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Barrow English
Habitational name from any of the numerous places named with Old English bearo, bearu "grove" or from Barrow in Furness, Cumbria, which is named with an unattested Celtic word, barr, here meaning "promontory", and Old Norse ey "island"... [more]
Booker English
Occupational name for a maker of books, a scribe or a binder of books, from Old English bocere.
Champion English, French
Derived from the Middle English and Old French words campion, champiun and champion all meaning "athlete" such as a wrestler or boxer; also "warrior hired to do battle in single combat on behalf of others" (from Late Latin campio genitive campionis a derivative of campus "plain field of battle")... [more]
Childers English
Probably a habitational name from some lost place named Childerhouse, from Old English cildra "child" and hus "house". This may have referred to some form of orphanage.
Clive English
English surname meaning "cliff" in Old English, originally belonging to a person who lived near a cliff.
Kölsch German
From German kölsch, denoting someone from Cologne (Köln in German).
Ryals English
English occupational surname.
Seiler German
German and Jewish occupational surname for a rope maker.
Whitmarsh English
English habitational name from Whitemarsh, a place in the parish of Sedgehill, Wiltshire, named from Old English hwit ‘white’ (i.e. ‘phosphorescent’) + mersc ‘marsh’. Compare Whitmore.