El is a Beth's Personal Name List

May come either from the Old English word "withig" meaning "willow" or from Guyat, a pet form of the Old French given name Guy. Probably unrelated to Wyatt.

From the medieval given name Wyot.

From a place name composed of Old English hwit "white" and æcer "field".

Occupational name meaning "weaver", from Old English webba, a derivative of wefan "to weave".

Topographic name for someone who lived in a valley, Middle English vale (Old French val, from Latin vallis). The surname is now also common in Ireland, where it has been Gaelicized as de Bhál.

From the Old English male personal name Hūnwine, literally "bearcub-friend" (later confused with Old English unwine "enemy"). Bearers include British publisher Sir Stanley Unwin (1885-1968) and "Professor" Stanley Unwin (1911-2002), South African-born British purveyor of comical nonsense language.

Nickname denoting someone with very white hair or an exceptionally pale complexion, from Old English snaw "snow".
Americanized and shortened form of any of the Jewish ornamental names composed with German Schnee, Schnei, Schneu ‘snow’ as the first element.

English: from a medieval personal name, a short form of Silvester (see Silvester) or Silvanus (see Silvano).

Derived from the given name Osborn.

Derived from the given name Meurig.

From the personal name Maredudd. In Welsh the stress is on the second syllable. The Old Welsh form is Morgetiud, of which the first element may mean "pomp, splendor" and the second is iudd "lord".

From the French male personal name Maturin, from Latin Mātūrīnus, a derivative of Mātūrus, literally "timely". It was borne by the Irish "Gothic" novelist Charles Maturin (1782-1824).

Derived from the given name Martin. This is the most common surname in France.

From the English word meaning, "to walk stiffly and proudly" or possibly from the month.

Variant of Lock.

Metronymic from Lilly.

Derived from the given name Lewis. The author C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) was a bearer of this surname.

English (mainly northeastern England and West Yorkshire): habitational name from either of two places in Cumbria, or from one in the parish of Halsall, near Ormskirk, Lancashire. The Cumbrian places are probably named from Middle English hart ‘male deer’ + kerr ‘marshland’. The one in Lancashire has the same second element, while the first is probably Old English har ‘gray’ or hara ‘hare’. nickname for an eavesdropper or busybody, from an agent derivative of Middle English herkien ‘to listen’.

From Old English grēne "green" and lēaf "leaf", presumably applied as a nickname, the significance of which is now lost.

Anglicized form of Swiss German Krähenbühl, meaning "crow hill".

From Old English glæs or Old High German glas meaning "glass". This was an occupational name for a glass blower or glazier.

Anglicized form of MacFhionnlaigh.

From the medieval English givin name Elric. Notable bearers were the Fullmetal Alchemist characters Edward and Alphonse Elric, as well as their mother, Trisha Elric.

Variant of Douglas.

From Irish Ó Deoradháin meaning "descendant of Deoradhán", where Deoradhán is a given name meaning "exile, wanderer".

From the given name Deorwine. A famous bearer was the British naturalist Charles Darwin (1809-1882).

Locative name meaning "cross", ultimately from Latin crux. It denoted one who lived near a cross symbol or near a crossroads.

From Old English meaning "happy, joyous, blithe".

Derived from the medieval English given name Bennett.

Originally a diminutive of Beck 1 or Beck 3.

Probably derived from the Middle English word barat meaning "trouble, deception", originally given to a quarrelsome person.

From various English place names, which were derived from a Celtic word meaning "high".

(Note: In some cases it may be an anglicized form of the Dutch surname Aarden.)