LegendaryMyth's Personal Name List

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Almánzar  Derived from Arabic المنظر (al manẓar) meaning "the view" or "the lookout". 
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Anaya  From the names of a few Spanish towns, possibly of Arabic origin meaning "stagnant water" or "path". 
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Arora  From the name of the ancient city of Aror in what is now the Sindh province, Pakistan. 
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Atwood  From Middle English meaning "dweller at the wood". 
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Babington  Habitational name for someone from Babington in Somerset. 
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Bačić  Croatian. 
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Backus  Means "bakery", an occupational name for a baker, from Old English bæchus literally "bake house". 
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Bellini  From Italian bello meaning "beautiful". 
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Björnsson  From an Old Norse byname derived from bjǫrn, meaning son of Bjorn- "bear". 
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Blackwood  From an English place name meaning "black wood". 
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Bray  From a place name derived from Cornish bre "hill". 
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Ceretti  This surname may denote the original bearer having lived around Turkey Oaks in Tuscany, Italy. 
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Chastain  From Old French castan "chestnut tree" (Latin castanea), a name for someone who lived near a particular chestnut tree, or possibly a nickname for someone with chestnut-coloured hair. 
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Croft  From Old English croft meaning "enclosed field". 
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Daddario  Variant of D'Addario. From the given name Addario. 
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Duxbury  Habitational name from a place in Lancashire, recorded in the early 13th century as D(e)ukesbiri. 
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Eklund  From Swedish. Composed of the elements ek "oak" and lund "grove". 
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Farahani  Indicated a person from the county of Farahan in Markazi province, Iran. 
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Fay 1  Derived from various places named Fay or Faye in northern France, derived from Old French fau "beech tree", from Latin fagus 
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Fern
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Fox  From the name of the animal. It was originally a nickname for a person with red hair or a crafty person. 
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Gott  Derived from the Old German given name Goda, derived from the element guot meaning "good" or got meaning "god". 
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Harrington  From Old English word meaning "hare town" 
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Hawk  Originally a nickname for a person who had a hawk-like appearance or who acted in a fierce manner, derived from Old English heafoc "hawk". 
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Holt  From Old English, Old Dutch and Old Norse holt meaning "forest". 
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Hsu 1  Alternate transcription of Chinese Xu, referring to the minor state of Xu, which existed to the 4th century BC in what is now Henan province. 
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Hunnacott  From Old English hunig "honey" or the given name Huna combined with cot "cottage". This is the name of a small town in Devon, England. 
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Hunter  Occupational name that referred to someone who hunted for a living, from Old English hunta. 
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Ikeda  From Japanese 池 (ike) meaning "pool, pond" and 田 (ta) meaning "field". 
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Kelly 2  From a Scottish place name derived from coille "grove". 
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Khoo
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Kirwan  From Gaelic Ó Ciardhubháin meaning "descendant of Ciardhubhán", a given name composed of the elements ciar "dark" and dubh "black" combined with a diminutive suffix. 
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Kos  Means "blackbird". 
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Lamb  A nickname for a gentle or malleable person or an occupational name for someone who raised or cared for young sheep. Can take the form Lum. 
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Lang  German, Danish and Norwegian cognate of LONG. 
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Lawrence  Derived from the given name LAURENCE. 
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Linwood  Originally derived from a place name meaning "stream forest" in Old English. 
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Lockwood  From an English place name meaning "enclosure forest". 
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Lorén  A variant of the Spanish personal name Llorente. 
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Maeda
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Magnusson  Means "son of MAGNUS". 
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Mahdavi  From the given name Mahdi. 
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Malloch  Reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic MacIain Mhalaich "son of Ian of the bushy eyebrows", which was the family name of the MacGregors of Balhaldie. 
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Mead  Lived by a meadow, from Middle English 
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Medvedev  From Russian медведь (medved') meaning "bear". 
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Mejía  Possibly from a nickname derived from Spanish Mesías meaning "Messiah". 
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Mekonnen  Ethiopian surname (from given name), meaning 'aristocrat'. 
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Minett  From the medieval Minna. Means "love" in Old German, specifically medieval courtly love. 
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Miyamoto  From Japanese 宮 (miya) meaning "temple, shrine, palace" and 本 (moto) meaning "base, root, origin". 
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Moreno  From a nickname meaning "dark" in Spanish and Portuguese. 
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Morgenstern  Morning star in German. 
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Motta  From various names of places around Italy. It is derived from a Gaulish word meaning "hill". 
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Okorie  From the given name Okoriee. Means "born on Orie" in Igbo, Orie being one of the days of the Igbo week. 
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Oliveira  Means "olive tree" in Portuguese, ultimately from Latin oliva. It indicated a person who lived near or worked with olive trees. 
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Ouyang  From Chinese 歐 (ōu) referring to Mount Sheng in present-day Huzhou, China, combined with 陽 (yáng) meaning "southern face (of a mountain)". 
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Picot  Norman French 
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Poirier  French, pear tree 
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Quek  Hokkien and Teochew romanization of Guo. From Chinese meaning "outer city 
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Ribeiro  Means "little river, stream" in Portuguese, ultimately from Latin riparius meaning "riverbank". 
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Romagna  Latin Romania meaning "land of the Romans". 
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Sallow  Medieval for willow tree 
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Sebeok  From Sebők, a diminutive of Sebestyén. 
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Sheng  From Chinese meaning "flourishing, prosperous", also referring to the ancient state of Sheng which existed during the Zhou dynasty in present-day Shandong province. 
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Sovin
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Stoneking  The name originates in Cornwall, 
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Sutton f & m  English. From the traditionally English surname meaning "south town". 
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Vance  Old English, dweller by a fen 
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Van Kann  Means "from Kanne", a town in the province of Limburg in Belgium. The meaning of the town's name is unknown. 
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Wildblood  From a medieval nickname for a rakish or hot-headed person. 
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Wray  From Old Norse vrá meaning "corner, nook" 
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Ziegenhorn  Upper German (Archaic). Goat horn, either 1. the horn of a goat, 2. Goat mountain, or 3. From goat mountain. 
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