Submitted Name Save Type Surname (from location) Usage English Other Forms FormsThackeray Edit Status Status [show contributorhide contributor] Added 1/2/2017 by LMS Meaning & History English (Yorkshire) habitational name from Thackray in the parish of Great Timble, West Yorkshire, now submerged in Fewston reservoir. It was named with Old Norse þak ‘thatching’, ‘reeds’ + (v)rá ‘nook’, ‘corner’.