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Aaron Jewish, English
From the given name Aaron.

Abbey English
Indicated a person who lived near an abbey or worked in an abbey, from Middle English abbeye.

Abbott English
English cognate of Abate.

Abel 1 English, French, Danish, Spanish, Portuguese
Derived from the given name Abel.

Abney English
From the name of a town in Derbyshire, derived from Old English meaning "Abba's island".

Abraham Jewish, English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch
Derived from the given name Abraham.

Abrahams Jewish, English, Dutch
Means "son of Abraham".

Abrahamson Jewish, English
Means "son of Abraham".

Abram English
Derived from the given name Abraham.

Abrams Jewish, English
Means "son of Abraham".

Abramson English
Means "son of Abraham".

Acker German, English
Denoted a person who lived near a field, derived from Middle English aker or Middle High German acker meaning "field".

Ackerman English
Means "ploughman", derived from Middle English aker "field" and man.

Adair English
Derived from the given name Edgar.

Adam u & m English, French, German, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Romanian, Jewish
Derived from the given name Adam.

Adams English, Jewish
Derived from the given name Adam.

Adamson English
Means "son of Adam".

Adcock English
Derived from a diminutive of the given name Adam.

Addison English
Means "son of Addy 2".

Adkins English
Variant of Atkins.

Aiken English
From the medieval given name Atkin, a diminutive of Adam.

Ainsworth English
Habitational name for a person from the village of Ainsworth near Manchester, itself from the Old English given name Ægen and worþ meaning "enclosure".

Aitken Scottish, English
Derived from the medieval given name Atkin, a diminutive of Adam.

Akerman English
Variant of Ackerman.

Akers English
Variant of Acker.

Alan English, Scottish
Derived from the given name Alan.

Albert English, French, Catalan, Hungarian, Romanian, German
Derived from the given name Albert.

Alberts English, Dutch
Means "son of Albert".

Albertson English
Means "son of Albert".

Albinson English
Means "son of Albin".

Alden English
Derived from the Old English given name Ealdwine.

Alexander English
Derived from the given name Alexander.

Alfredson English
Means "son of Alfred".

Alger English
From the given name Algar.

Allan English, Scottish
Derived from the given name Alan.

Allard French, English
Derived from the given name Adalhard (or the Old English cognate Æðelræd).

Allen English, Scottish
Derived from the given name Alan.

Allison English
Means "son of Alan" or "son of Alexander" (as well as other given names beginning with Al).

Allsopp English
From the name of the village of Alsop en la Dale in Derbyshire, England. It means "Ælli's valley" in Old English.

Alvey English
Derived from the given name Ælfwig.

Alvin English
Variant of Elwyn.

Anderson English
Means "son of Andrew".

Andrews English
Means "son of Andrew".

Andrewson English
Variant of Anderson.

Ansel English
Derived from the given name Anselm.

Anson English
Means "son of Agnes".

Anthonyson English (Rare)
Means "son of Anthony".

Appleby English
From the name of various English towns, derived from Old English æppel "apple" and Old Norse býr "farm, settlement".

Appleton English
From the name of several English towns, meaning "orchard" in Old English (a compound of æppel "apple" and tun "enclosure, yard").

Apted English
Probably from an unidentified place name meaning "up tower" in Old English.

Archer English
Occupational name for one who practiced archery, from Latin arcus "bow" (via Old French).

Arkwright English
Occupational name meaning "chest maker", from Middle English arc meaning "chest, coffer" and wyrhta meaning "maker, craftsman".

Armistead English
Means "hermitage", indicating a person who lived near one, from Middle English ermite "hermit" and stede "place".

Armstrong English
Means "strong arm" from Middle English. Tradition holds that the family is descended from Siward, an 11th-century Earl of Northumbria. Famous bearers of this name include the Americans Louis Armstrong (1901-1971), a jazz musician, and Neil Armstrong (1930-2012), an astronaut who was the first person to walk on the moon.

Arnold English, German
Derived from the given name Arnold.

Arrington English
From the name of a town in Cambridgeshire, originally meaning "Earna's settlement" in Old English (Earna being a person's nickname meaning "eagle").

Arterberry English
Variant of Atteberry.

Arterbury English
Variant of Atteberry.

Arthur English, French
From the given name Arthur.

Arthurson English
Means "son of Arthur".

Ash English
From Old English æsc meaning "ash tree", indicating a person who lived near ash trees.

Ashley English
Denoted a person hailing from one of the many places in England that bear this name. The place name itself is derived from Old English æsc "ash tree" and leah "woodland, clearing".

Ashton English
Denoted a person from one of the towns in England that bear this name, itself derived from Old English æsc "ash tree" and tun "enclosure, yard, town".

Ashworth English
From an English place name meaning "ash enclosure" in Old English.

Aston 1 English
From a place name meaning "east town" in Old English.

Aston 2 English
From the Old English given name Æðelstan.

Atkins English
Means "son of Atkin", a medieval diminutive of Adam.

Atkinson English
Means "son of Atkin", a medieval diminutive of Adam.

Attaway English
Means "at the way", originally denoting someone who lived close to a road.

Atteberry English
Means "dweller at the fortified town" from Middle English at and burh "fortified place".

Atterberry English
Variant of Atteberry.

Attwater English
Variant of Atwater.

Attwood English
Variant of Atwood.

Atwater English
From Middle English meaning "dweller at the water".

Atwood English
From Middle English meaning "dweller at the wood".

Audley English
From a place name meaning "Ealdgyð's clearing" in Old English.

Augustine English
From the given name Augustine 1.

Austin English
Derived from the given name Austin.

Auteberry English
Variant of Atteberry.

Averill English
From Middle English aueril, Old French avrill meaning "April", perhaps indicating a person who was baptized in that month.

Avery English
Derived from a Norman French form of the given names Alberich or Alfred.

Ayers 1 English
From Middle English eir meaning "heir".

Ayers 2 English
Derived from the given name Ealhhere.

Ayers 3 English
Indicated a person from the town of Ayr in Scotland. The town was named for the river that flows through it, itself derived from an Indo-European root meaning "water".

Aylmer English
Derived from the Old English name Æðelmær.

Ayton English
From the name of towns in Berwickshire and North Yorkshire. They are derived from Old English ea "river" or ieg "island" combined with tun "enclosure, yard, town".

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