Previous Names of the Day
Feb 4th
Steinmann German
Means
"stone man" in German, used as a habitational name for a person who lived near a prominent stone or an occupational name for a stone worker.
Feb 3rd
D'Aramitz French
Originally denoted one who came from Aramits, the name of a town in the French Pyrenees that is possibly derived from Basque
haran meaning "valley".
Feb 1st
Draper English
Occupational name for a maker or seller of woollen cloth, from Anglo-Norman French
draper (Old French
drapier, an agent derivative of
drap "cloth").
Jan 31st
Pitts English
Indicated a person who lived by a pit or hollow, from Old English
pytt. It could also indicate a person from Pitt (Hants) or Pett (East Sussex) in England.
Jan 30th
Colombo Italian
Either from Italian
colomba "dove" indicating a dove keeper, or from the given name
Colombo, which is derived from the same word. This was the Italian surname of the 15th-century explorer Christopher Columbus.
Jan 29th
Yoxall English
Originally indicated a person from the town of Yoxall in Staffordshire, itself derived from Old English
geoc "oxen yoke" and
halh "nook, recess".