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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").

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

Bagley English
From various English place names, derived from the Old English given name Bacga combined with leah "woodland, clearing".

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

Beaumont French, English
From French place names derived from beau "beautiful" and mont "mountain".

Beech 2 English
Originally a name for a person who lived near a beech tree, from Old English bece.

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

Blakeley English
From name of various English places, derived from Old English blæc "black" and leah "woodland, clearing".

Blakesley English
From the name of a town in Northamptonshire, itself meaning "Blæcwulf's meadow" in Old English. Blæcwulf is a byname meaning "black wolf".

Bradley English
From a common English place name, derived from brad "broad" and leah "woodland, clearing".

Bradshaw English
From any of the places by this name in England, derived from Old English brad "broad" and sceaga "thicket".

Brandon English
From the name of various places in England meaning "hill covered with broom" in Old English.

Brierley English
From an English place name, derived from brer "briar" and leah "woodland, clearing".

Brownlow English
From Old English brun meaning "brown" and hlaw meaning "mound, small hill". The name was probably given to a family living on a small hill covered with bracken.

Buckley 1 English
From an English place name derived from bucc "buck, male deer" and leah "woodland, clearing".

Bullock English
From a nickname meaning "young bull".

Bush English
Originally a name for a person who lived near a prominent bush or thicket.

Clayton English
From the name of various places meaning "clay settlement" in Old English.

Clifford English
Derived from various place names that meant "ford by a cliff" in Old English.

Cock English
Derived from the medieval nickname cok meaning "rooster, cock". The nickname was commonly added to given names to create diminutives such as Hancock or Alcock.

Cockburn Scottish, English
Originally indicated someone who came from Cockburn, a place in Berwickshire. The place name is derived from Old English cocc "rooster" and burna "stream".

Collingwood English
From a place name, itself derived from Old French chalenge meaning "disputed" and Middle English wode meaning "woods".

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

Crawley English
From various place names derived from Old English crawe "crow" and leah "woodland, clearing".

Croft English
From Old English croft meaning "enclosed field".

Crowley 2 English
Variant of Crawley.

Delaney 1 English
Derived from Norman French de l'aunaie meaning "from the alder grove".

Denman English
From Middle English dene "valley" combined with man.

Fairburn English
From a place name meaning "fern stream", from Old English fearn "fern" and burna "stream".

Fenn English
From a name for someone who dwelt near a marsh, from Old English fenn meaning "fen, swamp, bog".

Fenwick English
From an English place name, derived from Old English fenn "fen, swamp, bog" and wic "village, town".

Fields English
Name for a person who lived on or near a field or pasture, from Old English feld.

Forest English, French
Originally belonged to a person who lived near or in a forest. It was probably originally derived, via Old French forest, from Latin forestam (silva) meaning "outer (wood)".

Fox English
From the name of the animal. It was originally a nickname for a person with red hair or a crafty person.

Gardener English
Occupational surname for one who was a gardener, from Old French jardin meaning "garden" (of Frankish origin).

Gardner English
Variant of Gardener.

Garland English
Means "triangle land" from Old English gara and land. It originally belonged to a person who owned a triangle-shaped piece of land.

Green English
Descriptive name for someone who often wore the colour green or someone who lived near the village green.

Greenwood English
Topographic name for someone who lived in or near a lush forest, from Old English grene "green" and wudu "wood".

Grover English
From Old English graf meaning "grove of trees". A famous bearer was the American president Grover Cleveland (1837-1908).

Haggard English
From a nickname meaning "wild, untamed, worn", from Old French, ultimately from a Germanic root.

Hamm English
Means "river meadow" in Old English.

Hartley English
Habitational name for someone originally from any of the various locations in England named Hartley, from Old English heorot "hart, male deer" and leah "woodland, clearing".

Hawking English
From a diminutive of Hawk. A famous bearer was the British physicist Stephen Hawking (1942-2018).

Hawthorn English
Variant of Hawthorne.

Hawthorne English
Denoted a person who lived near a hawthorn bush, a word derived from Old English hagaþorn, from haga meaning "enclosure, yard" and þorn meaning "thorn bush". A famous bearer was the American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), author of The Scarlet Letter.

Hayden 1 English
From place names meaning either "hay valley" or "hay hill", derived from Old English heg "hay" and denu "valley" or dun "hill".

Haywood English
From various place names meaning "fenced wood" in Old English.

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

Holme English, Scottish
Referred either to someone living by a small island (northern Middle English holm, from Old Norse holmr) or near a holly tree (Middle English holm, from Old English holegn).

Holmwood English
Variant of Homewood.

Holt English, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian
From Old English, Old Dutch and Old Norse holt meaning "forest".

Horsfall English
From a minor place in Yorkshire derived from Old English hors "horse" and fall "clearing".

Huff English
Means "spur of a hill", from Old English hoh.

Huxley English
From the name of a town in Cheshire. The final element is Old English leah "woodland, clearing", while the first element might be hux "insult, scorn". A famous bearer was the British author Aldous Huxley (1894-1963).

Kerr Scottish, English
From Scots and northern Middle English kerr meaning "thicket, marsh", ultimately from Old Norse kjarr.

Kimberley English
From various English places called Kimberley. They mean either "Cyneburga's field", "Cynebald's field" or "Cynemær's field".

Kimberly English
Variant of Kimberley.

Langley 1 English
From any of the various places with this name, all derived from Old English lang "long" and leah "woodland, clearing".

Layton English
Derived from the name of English towns, meaning "town with a leek garden" in Old English.

Lee 1 English
Originally given to a person who lived on or near a leah, Old English meaning "woodland, clearing".

Linton English
Originally from place names meaning either "flax town" or "linden tree town" in Old English.

Lowell English
From a nickname derived from a Norman French lou meaning "wolf" and a diminutive suffix.

Lyndon English
Originally from a place name meaning "linden tree hill" in Old English.

Marsh English
Originally denoted one who lived near a marsh or bog, derived from Old English mersc "marsh".

Marston English
From a place name derived from Old English mersc "marsh" and tun "enclosure".

Meadows English
Referred to one who lived in a meadow, from Old English mædwe.

Moore 1 English
Originally indicated a person who lived on a moor, from Middle English mor meaning "open land, bog".

Morley English
From the name of various English towns, from Old English mor "moor, bog" and leah "woodland, clearing".

Moss 1 English
From Middle English mos meaning "bog, moss".

Northrop English
Originally denoted one who came from a town of this name England, meaning "north farm".

Padmore English
Originally indicated a person from Padmore in England, derived from Old English padde "toad" and mor "moor, marsh".

Park 2 English
From Middle English park, from Latin parricus, of Frankish origin. This was a name for someone who worked in or lived in a park.

Peacock English
From Middle English pecok meaning "peacock". It was originally a nickname for a proud or haughty person.

Plaskett English
Originally denoted a dweller by a swampy meadow, from Old French plascq meaning "wet meadow".

Pond English
Originally referred to one who lived near a pond.

Read 2 English
From Old English ryd, an unattested form of rod meaning "cleared land". It is also derived from various English place names with various meanings, including "roe headland", "reeds" and "brushwood".

Rhodes English
Topographic name derived from Old English rod meaning "cleared land", or a locational name from any of the locations named with this word.

Rose 1 English, French, German, Jewish
Means "rose" from Middle English, Old French and Middle High German rose, all from Latin rosa. All denote a person of a rosy complexion or a person who lived in an area abundant with roses. As a Jewish surname it is ornamental, from Yiddish רויז (roiz).

Rowbottom English
Originally indicated a person who lived in an overgrown valley, from Old English ruh "rough, overgrown" and boðm "valley".

Rowe 2 English
From the medieval name Row, which is either a variant of Roul or short form of Roland.

Rowntree English
Originally given to a person who lived near a rowan tree or mountain ash.

Savage English
English nickname meaning "wild, uncouth", derived from Old French salvage or sauvage meaning "untamed", ultimately from Latin silvaticus meaning "wild, from the woods".

Shirley English
From an English place name, derived from Old English scir "bright" and leah "woodland, clearing".

Smedley English
From an unidentified place name probably meaning "smooth clearing" in Old English.

Stanley English
From various place names meaning "stone clearing" in Old English. A notable bearer was the British-American explorer and journalist Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904).

Stone English
Name for a person who lived near a prominent stone or worked with stone, derived from Old English stan.

Summerfield English
Originally indicated the bearer was from a town of this name, derived from Old English sumor "summer" and feld "field".

Tenley English
Possibly from the name of an English town derived from Old English tind "point" and leah "woodland, clearing".

Thorley English
From any of the various places in England called Thornley or Thorley, meaning "thorn clearing" in Old English.

Thorn English, Danish
Originally applied to a person who lived in or near a thorn bush.

Thorne English
Variant of Thorn.

Thornton English
From any of the various places in England by this name, meaning "thorn town" in Old English.

Trask English
Originally indicated a person from Thirsk, North Yorkshire, derived from Old Norse þresk meaning "fen, marsh".

Tuft English
Denoted one who lived near a clump of trees or bushes, from Middle English tufte "tuft, clump", from Old French.

Turnbull English, Scottish
Nickname for someone thought to be strong enough to turn around a bull.

Vance English
Indicated a dweller by a fen, from Old English fenn meaning "fen, marsh".

Vann English
From Old English fenn meaning "fen, swamp", indicating a person who lived near such a place.

Vernon English
Locational name in the Eure region of Normandy, from the Gaulish element vern "alder (tree)" with the genitive case maker onis.

Whinery English
From Middle English whin "gorse bush" and wray "nook of land".

Wilton English
From any of the English towns named Wilton.

Winston English
Derived from the given name Wynnstan.

Witherspoon English
Originally given to a person who dwelt near a sheep enclosure, from Middle English wether "sheep" and spong "strip of land".

Wolf German, English
From Middle High German or Middle English wolf meaning "wolf", or else from an Old German given name beginning with this element.

Wolfe English
Variant of Wolf.

Wood English, Scottish
Originally denoted one who lived in or worked in a forest, derived from Old English wudu "wood".

Woodcock English
Nickname referring to the woodcock bird.

Woods English, Scottish
Variant of Wood.

Woodward English
Occupational name for a forester, meaning "ward of the wood" in Old English.