sponinsanity's Personal Name List

Originally indicated a person from the town of Yoxall in Staffordshire, itself derived from Old English geoc "oxen yoke" and halh "nook, recess".

Habitational name for someone from any of the various locations in England named Yardley, derived from Old English gierd meaning "branch, twig, pole, stick" and leah meaning "wood, clearing".

From Greek ξύλον (xylon) meaning "wood, timber" and ἀνδρός (andros) meaning "man". This surname was a Greek translation of German surnames of the same meaning.

Scotland or Ireland not sure of original origin. There was a childe Wynd some type of royal who slayed a dragon type thing worm or something and a Henery Wynd who was a mercenary in a battle at north inch in Scotland

From the medieval given name Wyot.

Originally denoted someone who came from any of the various places of this name in northern England, from Old Norse vrá meaning "corner, nook".

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

From a place name meaning "row of houses by a wood" in Old English.

Variant of Wolf.

From the given name Wilheard or Willihard.

From the name of various English towns, derived from Old English west "west" and leah "woodland, clearing".

From any of the several English towns by this name, derived from Old English meaning "west cottage".

From the name of places in England, derived from Old English west "west" and broc "brook, stream".

Variant of Westley.

Anglicized form of Irish Mac an Bhaird, which means "son of the bard".

From the name of any of several villages in England, derived from Old English wealh "foreigner, Celt", weald "forest", weall "wall", or wille "well, spring, water hole" combined with tun "enclosure, yard, town".

Means "son of Walter".

Derived from the German compound wala-hran, literally "wall raven", but originally meaning "strong bird". Also derived from the Gaelic wealdærn, meaning "forest dwelling", thought to be derived from the Sussex village of Waldron. Although dating back to pre-7th century, the first known recorded uses were found in France after the 1066 Norman Invasion.

Derived from the Old English place name wæd meaning "a ford".

From the Old English given name Wada, a derivative of the word wadan "to go".

From a nickname meaning "truth", perhaps given originally to a truthful person.

Derived from Hungarian vas meaning "iron", referring to a worker in iron, a miner of iron ore or a vendor of iron goods. Alternatively, from the same root word, it may have been a nickname referring to one with a distinctively strong constitution.

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

English and Scottish: from a medieval personal name, Latin Valentinus, a derivative of Valens (see also Valente), which was never common in England, but is occasionally found from the end of the 12th century, probably as the result of French influence. The name was borne by a 3rd-century saint and martyr, whose chief claim to fame is that his feast falls on February 14, the date of a traditional celebration of spring going back to the Roman fertility festival of Juno Februata. A 5th-century missionary bishop of Rhaetia of this name was venerated especially in southern Germany, being invoked as a patron against gout and epilepsy.

Denoted a person hailing from one of the many towns in England bearing this name. The place name itself is derived from Old English upp "up" and tun "enclosure, yard, town".

Means "dweller at the foot of a hill", from Old English under and hyll.

Originally indicated a person from Trengove in Cornwall, England.

Variant of Tremblay.

Meaning unknown.

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

Indicated a person who lived at the town's edge, from Old English tun "enclosure, yard, town" and ende "end, limit".

Variant of Toller.

Occupational name meaning "tax gatherer", derived from Old English toln "toll, fee, tax".

Means "knapsack" in Old French.

Possibly from a Germanic given name of unknown meaning. The second element of the name is derived from beraht meaning "bright, famous".

Occupational name for a mender of kettles, pots and pans. The name could derive from the tinking sound made by light hammering on metal. It is possible that the word comes from the word tin, the material with which the tinker worked.

From Tindale, the name of a town in Cumbria, derived from the name of the river Tyne combined with Old English dæl "dale, valley".

Indicated a dweller in a forest clearing or pasture, from Old Norse þveit "clearing, pasture".

From Old English þrostle meaning "song thrush", referring to a cheerful person.

From Old Norse þorp meaning "village".

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

Variant of Thorn.

Originally applied to a person who lived in or near a thorn bush.

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

Variant of Taylor.

Northern English occupational name for a servant or attendant, from Middle English swein "young man attendant upon a knight", which was derived from Old Norse sveinn "boy, servant, attendant". In some cases it may be a patronymic from the Old Norse given name Sveinn, originally from the word meaning "servant".

As a Scottish and Irish surname it is a reduced form of Mcswain, the anglicized form of an unidentified Gaelic patronymic, which perhaps meant "son of the servant" from Old Norse sveinn (or the given name Sveinn), or may have been Mac Suibhne "son of Suibhne" (a byname meaning "pleasant").

From various English place names meaning "south town".

From Old English strod meaning "marshy ground overgrown with brushwood".

Derived from Middle English strange meaning "foreign", ultimately from Latin extraneus.

From a French place named for Saint Peter.

Originally denoted someone from Storstrand farm in Norway, derived from stor meaning "big" and strand meaning "beach".

Occupational name for a horse keeper, from Old English stod "stallion, stud" and hierde "herder".

From a nickname meaning "strong, rigid", from Old English stearc or Old High German stark.

From one of the many places named Stanton or Staunton in England, derived from Old English stan meaning "stone" and tun meaning "enclosure, town".

From the name of the English city of Stafford, Staffordshire, derived from Old English stæð meaning "wharf, landing place" and ford meaning "ford, river crossing".

From Old English spere "spear", an occupational name for a hunter or a maker of spears, or a nickname for a thin person.

Name for a person who lived near the southern gate of a town or in a town named Southgate, from Old English suþ and gæt.

Variant of Sloan.

Originally indicated a person from Slane, County Meath, Ireland, which is derived from the given name Sláine.

Derived from the given name Simon 1.

Originally derived from various place names in England meaning "wide island", from Old English sid "wide" and eg "island". Another theory holds that it comes from the name of a town in Normandy called "Saint Denis", though evidence for this is lacking.

From the name of various English towns, derived from Old English sid "wide" and halh "nook, recess".

Variant of Shepherd.

Occupational name meaning "shepherd, sheep herder", from Old English sceaphyrde.

Variant of Shepherd.

Originally a name for someone from Sharrow, England, derived from Old English scearu "boundary" and hoh "point of land, heel".

Topographic name for someone who lived near a boundary, from Old English scead "boundary".

Occupational name for a sexton (Middle English sexteyn), a caretaker for a church or graveyard.

From the name of a village that meant "willow farm" in Old English.

From the unattested Old English given name Sæfaru, derived from the Old English elements sæ "sea, ocean" and faru "journey" [1].

Variant of Scriven.

Occupational name meaning "writer, clerk, scribe" in Old French, derived from Latin scriba.

Occupational name meaning "acrobat, dancer", derived from Old French sailleor, from Latin sallitor.

Occupational name meaning "sawer of wood, woodcutter" in Middle English, ultimately from Old English sagu meaning "saw". Mark Twain used it for the main character in his novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876).

Variant of Savage.

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

From the name of various towns in France, derived from French sauve "safe" and terre "land".

French diminutive form of Savage.

Means "blood" in Latin. This was used in the Japanese manga and anime series Seraph of the End for the vampire capital city of Sanguinem.

Occupational name or nickname for a singer, from Old English singan "to sing, to chant".

It meaning saint or holy. It comes from the Latin word sanctus.

Variant of Savage.

Sallow comes from the medieval word for willow tree. It is a location surname.

Nickname for a particularly pious individual, from Middle English, Old French saint, seint "holy" (Latin sanctus "blameless, holy"). The vocabulary word was occasionally used in the Middle Ages as a personal name, especially on the Continent, and this may have given rise to some instances of the surname.

Variant of Saylor.

Means "lightning" in Italian.

Occupational name for a maker of saddles, from Old English sadol "saddle".

Originally taken from an Old English place name meaning "Royse's town". The given name Royse was a medieval variant of Rose.

From French roue meaning "wheel", ultimately from Latin rota, an occupational name for a wheelwright.

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

Anglicized form of Ó Ruadháin.

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).

Originally denoted a person who came from any of the various places in northern France called Romilly or from Romiley in England.

From the given name Roman.

Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Ruadhagáin ‘son of Ruadhagán’, a personal name from a diminutive of ruadh ‘red’.

Denoted a person who hailed from one of the various places of this name in England. The places are derived from Old English geryd "channel" or hreod "reed" combined with leah "woodland, clearing".

Variant of Reiher.

Occupational name derived from Middle English reeve, Old English (ge)refa meaning "sheriff, prefect, local official".

Anglicized form of Irish Ó Rabhartaigh meaning "descendant of Rabhartach". The given name Rabhartach means "flood tide".

Anglicized form of Irish Ó Cuinn meaning "descendant of Conn".

Apparently an altered form of Scottish McKinley or a reduced form of Irish Mcquinnelly, Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Coingheallaigh or Ó Coingheallaigh ‘son (or descendant) of Coingheallach’, a personal name meaning ‘faithful to pledges’.

Originally from various place names in Normandy that were derived from the given name Quintus.

Variant of Quincy.

Originally belonged to one who was a prior (a religious official), or one who worked for a prior.

French and English: nickname from a pet form of Old French proux ‘valiant’, ‘brave’, or ‘wise’ (see Proulx, Prue).

Derived from Old French preu meaning "valiant, brave".

Occupational name, either for an apothecary, from Old French potecaire, or a seller of stew, from Old French potagier.

Occupational name for a potter, one who makes earthen vessels. This surname was used by J. K. Rowling for the hero in her Harry Potter series of books, first released in 1997.

Occupational name meaning "doorkeeper", ultimately from Old French porte "door", from Latin porta.

Originally referred to one who lived near a pond.

From the given name Pierre.

Originally meant "person from Penrose", Cornwall, Herefordshire and Wales ("highest part of the heath or moorland"). It is borne by the British mathematician Sir Roger Penrose (1931-).

Derived from a place name meaning "highest part of the heath or moorland" from the Celtic elements pen "head, top, end" and ros "heath, moor". Places in Cornwall, Herefordshire and Wales bear this name.

Cornish and Welsh: habitational name from any of the places called Penrose, in ten parishes of Cornwall, several in Wales, and in Herefordshire near the Welsh border. All are named with Celtic pen ‘head’, ‘top’, ‘end’ + ros ‘heath’, ‘moor’.

Habitational surname denoting someone originally from any of the various locations in England named Pennington, derived from Old English penning meaning "penny" (used as a byname or from a tribute due on the land) and tun meaning "town".

Variant of Penders.

Diminutive of the medieval name Pate, a short form of Patrick.

Derived from the given name Pascal.

Variant of Parish 1.

Variant of Parish 1.

Means "keeper of the park" in Middle English. It is an occupational name for a person who was a gamekeeper at a medieval park.

Originally denoted a person who came from the French city of Paris, which got its name from the ancient Celtic tribe known as the Parisii.

Diminutive of Page.

Occupational name meaning "servant, page". It is ultimately derived (via Old French and Italian) from Greek παιδίον (paidion) meaning "little boy".

Variant of Patton.

Denoted a person who hailed from one of the various places in England called Overton, meaning "upper settlement" or "riverbank settlement" in Old English.

Derived from the Old English given name Uhtric.

Derived from the given name Olivier.

Derived from the given name Oliver.

Originally denoted a person who was from Odell in Bedfordshire, derived from Old English wad "woad" (a plant that produces a blue dye) and hyll "hill".

Variant of Noel.

Originally taken from a place name meaning "north wood" in Old English.

From the name of various towns in England meaning "north town" in Old English.

Norrington is the name given to a person from the eponymous place.

A locational surname from the Germanic (Old English/Old Norse) term for the north. It either refers to someone who lived in a location called Northwell, lived north of a well, spring or stream (Old English weall). The -ell could also be from the Latin prefix -elius, meaning "origin". Therefore this surname could mean "of the North", or "from the North Well".

The surname appears in the records in England going back to the middle of the 1500's (mostly in the county of Sussex) and also from the same period in Sweden (see Norell).

Referred to a person who was originally from Scandinavia or Normandy. Even before the Norman Conquest, Scandinavians were settling the north and east of England. The Normans who participated in the Conquest were originally from Scandinavia, but had been living in Normandy, France for over a century and spoke French.

Combination of Swedish nord "north" or nor "small strait" and the common surname suffix -ell.

Derived from Swedish nord meaning "north" (Old Norse norðr).

Irish: variant of Nolan.
French: from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements not ‘need’ + land ‘land’.

This surname is thought to be derived from nore which could mean "shore, cliff." This could denote that someone might have lived in a shore or cliff. It may also be used as a surname for someone who lived in the now 'diminished' village of Nore in Surrey.

Variant of Neville.

From English ness and Norwegian nes meaning "headland, promontory", of Old Norse origin, originally referring to a person who lived there.

Means "person from Nairn", Highland region ("(place at the mouth of the river) Nairn", a Celtic river-name perhaps meaning "penetrating one").

From a place name meaning "Margaret's clearing".

From the name of a minor place in the West Midlands.

From Irish Ó Muircheartach meaning "descendant of Muirchertach". This was the surname given by Arthur Conan Doyle to a master criminal in the Sherlock Holmes series.

Variant of O'Mooney.

Means "guardian of the mill" in Old English.

Anglicized form of the Irish Ó Maolagáin meaning "descendant of Maolagán", a given name derived from maol meaning "bald" or "tonsured".

Occupational surname meaning "miller", referring to a person who owned or worked in a grain mill, derived from Middle English mille "mill".

Variant of Millward.

From Middle High German meier meaning "bailiff, administrator", derived from Latin maior meaning "greater". Later it also denoted a tenant farmer. The spellings Meier and Meyer are more common in northern Germany while Maier and Mayer are more common in southern Germany.

Derived from the given name Muriel.

French form of Merlo.

From Gaelic Mac Giolla Fhaoláin meaning "son of the servant of Faolán".

Variant of Meyer 1.

Occupational name for a mayor, from Middle English mair, derived via Old French from Latin maior.

Occupational name for a stoneworker or layer of bricks, from Old French masson, of Frankish origin (akin to Old English macian "to make").

From Old French maloret meaning "unfortunate, unlucky", a term introduced to England by the Normans.

Possibly a variant of McGowan or McGovern.

Anglicized form of Gaelic MacGriogair meaning "son of Gregor". It originates from the Highland clan Gregor. A famous bearer was the Scottish folk hero Rob Roy MacGregor (1671-1734).

Originally denoted a person from the city of Lyon in central France, originally Latin Lugdunum, of Gaulish origin meaning "hill fort of Lugus". It could also denote a person from the small town of Lyons-la-Forêt in Normandy.

Variant of Linwood.

Possibly from the place name Leask in Aberdeenshire, of unknown meaning.

Derived from the given name Lucas. A famous bearer of this surname is George Lucas (1944-), the creator of the Star Wars movies.

From a diminutive of the given name Laurence 1.

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

Variant of Lowell.

From a nickname for a lothario, derived from Middle English lufeles, Old English lufuleas meaning "loveless".

From various place names in the Netherlands, derived from Old Dutch loh meaning "meadow, clearing".

From an English place name meaning "enclosed wood".

English habitational name from either of two places in West Yorkshire called Lindley, or from Linley in Shropshire and Wiltshire, all named from Old English lin ‘flax’ + leah ‘wood’, ‘glade’, with epenthetic -d-, or from another Lindley in West Yorkshire (near Otley), named in Old English as ‘lime wood’, from lind ‘lime tree’ + leah ‘woodland clearing’. Lindley in Leicestershire probably also has this origin, and is a further possible source of the surname.
German: habitational name from places in Bavaria and Hannover called Lindloh, meaning ‘lime grove’, or a topographic name with the same meaning (see Linde + Loh).

Variant of Lennon.

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

Originally designated one who lived by a lane, a narrow way between fences or hedges, later used of any narrow pathway, including one between houses in a town.

Derived from a French word meaning "wool", designating one who worked in the wool trade.

From Irish Ó Luain meaning "descendant of Luan", a given name meaning "warrior".

Means "landowner" in Scots, derived from northern Middle English laverd "lord", from Old English hlafweard.

From the name of various places in Scotland and northern England, derived from Scottish Gaelic cnoc "round hill".

From Irish Mac Aodhagáin meaning "descendant of Aodhagán". The given name Aodhagán is a double diminutive of Aodh.

English: occupational name for a brothelkeeper; originally a feminine form of Hollier.

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

Originally belonged to a person who played the harp or who made harps.

Derived from Old English halh meaning "nook, recess, hollow".

From a nickname for a person who had grey hair or grey clothes.

Means "farm bailiff" from Old French grangier, ultimately from Latin granum meaning "grain". It is borne in the Harry Potter novels by Harry's friend Hermione Granger.

Means "glass worker, glazier", from Old English glæs meaning "glass".

From the French given name Germain.

From the given name Gerard.

Variant of Garnett 1 or Garnett 2.

Variant of Gardener.

Variant of Gardener.

Variant of Gardener.

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

Occupational name derived either from Old French jauge "measure" (a name for an assayer) or gage "pledge, payment" (a name for a moneylender). Both words were ultimately of Frankish origin.

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

Variant of Fosse.

Name for someone who lived near ferns, from Old High German farn "fern".

Variant of Ford. This is a very common spelling in Ireland.

Name given to someone who lived by a ford, possibly the official who maintained it. A famous bearer was the American industrialist Henry Ford (1863-1947).

Derived from Old French fontane meaning "well, fountain", a derivative of Latin fons.

Anglicized form of Irish Ó Floinn meaning "descendant of Flann".

Occupational name for a fletcher, someone who attached feathers to the shaft of an arrow. It is derived from Old French fleche meaning "arrow".

From Irish Ó Flannagáin meaning "descendant of Flannagán". Flannagán is a given name meaning "blood red". From County Roscommon in Ireland, it has many other spellings.

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

Possibly indicated a person from the town of Faverges in eastern France, derived from Old French faverge meaning "forge".

Occupational name meaning "keeper of falcons", from Middle English and Scots faulcon, from Late Latin falco, of Germanic origin.

From the Irish Ó Fionnáin meaning "descendant of Fionn".

English: topographic name for someone who lived by a patch of fallow land, Middle English falwe (Old English f(e)alg). This word was used to denote both land left uncultivated for a time to recover its fertility and land recently brought into cultivation.
The name is also borne by Ashkenazic Jews, as an Americanized form of one or more like-sounding Jewish surnames.

Means "beautiful child" in Middle English and Scots.

Derived from the feminine given name Eoforhild.

Americanized form of Espensen.

Topographic name derived from Old English meaning "from the end cottage".

Means "son of Emery". The surname was borne by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), an American writer and philosopher who wrote about transcendentalism.

Derived from the given names Ælfwine, Æðelwine or Ealdwine.

Variant of Ellison.

Patronymic form of the English name Ellis, from the medieval given name Elis, a vernacular form of Elijah.

Derived from the given name Elijah, or sometimes Elisedd.

Derived from the Old Norse byname Draki or the Old English byname Draca both meaning "dragon", both via Latin from Greek δράκων (drakon) meaning "dragon, serpent".

Means "from Orsay", referring to the town of Orsay near Paris, its name deriving from the Latin personal name Orcius.

Means "from Isigny", referring to the town of Isigny in Normandy. This surname was borne by the American animator and filmmaker Walt Disney (1901-1966).

Means "from the hillside", from French coteau "hillside".

Anglicized form of Irish Ó Díomasaigh meaning "descendant of Díomasach", a given name meaning "proud".

English (of Norman origin) habitational name, with fused French preposition d(e), for someone from Hauterive in Orne, France, named from Old French haute rive ‘high bank’ (Latin alta ripa).

From Old English Dearthington believed to be the settlement of Deornoth's people (unclear root + ing a family group + ton an enclosed farm or homestead).

Originally denoted a Dane, that is a person from Denmark.

Meant "person from Dallaway", West Midlands (perhaps from a Norman personal name, "person from (de) Alluyes", northern France). A fictional bearer of the surname is Mrs Dalloway, central figure of the eponymous novel (1925) by Virginia Woolf.

An English surname probably derived from the French de la mare, meaning "of the sea", though some contend that "mare" springs from the English word moor. This surname probably arose after the Norman conquest of Britain.

From Old English dæl meaning "valley", originally indicating a person who lived there.

Means "person from Daventry", Northamptonshire ("Dafa's tree"). The place-name is traditionally pronounced "daintry".

Derived from Middle English cotter meaning "cottager", referring to a small tenant farmer.

Nickname derived from Italian corvo meaning "crow".

From Middle English clos meaning "enclosure", a topographic name for someone who lived near a courtyard or farmyard.

Means "cart" in Old French, used to denote a carter or a cartwright.

Occupational name meaning "candle seller" or "candle maker" in Middle English, ultimately derived from Latin candela via Old French.

Occupational name for an administrator, a chancellor, from Norman French chancelier.

From a nickname for a lucky person or a gambler.

Occupational name for one who looked after the inner rooms of a mansion, from Norman French chambrelain.

Indicated a person who lived near a causeway, from Old French caucie.

From Middle English castel meaning "castle", from Late Latin castellum, originally indicating a person who lived near a castle.

Catalan cognate of Castle.

From Irish Ó Caiside meaning "descendant of Caiside". Caiside is a given name meaning "curly haired".

Anglicized form of Irish Ó Cearmada meaning "descendant of Cearmaid", a Gaelic given name.

Originally a name for someone from Cantrell in Devon, from an unknown first element and Old English hyll meaning "hill".

Anglicized form of Irish Ó Ceallacháin meaning "descendant of Cellachán".

Variant of Callahan.

Originally indicated someone from Brackenrig in Lanarkshire, derived from northern Middle English braken meaning "bracken" (via Old Norse brækni) and rigg meaning "ridge" (via Old Norse hryggr).

From a place name, which is derived from Old English meaning "settlement by a steep path".

Means "brass worker", derived from Old English bræs "brass".

Occupational name meaning "maker of boats".

Originally indicated someone from the town of Blidworth in Nottinghamshire, which was derived from the Old English byname Blīþa (meaning "happy, blithe") combined with worð "enclosure".

Derived from the given name Blaise.

From the name of a city in Lancashire, meaning "black stream" in Old English.

Means "beautiful rose" in French.

From Old French bel ami meaning "beautiful friend".

Habitational name from any of various places in France named Beauregard for their fine view or fine aspect, for example in Ain, Dordogne, Drôme, Lot, and Puy-de-Dôme, from beau "fair, lovely" and regard "aspect, outlook".

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

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

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

This surname is derived from Old English æsc & land and it means "ash tree land."

From a Dutch surname that means "son of Aris 2". In The Netherlands, this name is never used as a first name, since Dutch law strictly prohibits the use of surnames as first names. Therefore, if this name is indeed sometimes used as a first name in the United States (where it *is* allowed to use surnames as first names), one should classify Arisen as an (American-)English first name.

From the Late Latin name Ambrosius, which was derived from the Greek name Αμβροσιος (Ambrosios) meaning "immortal".

Means (i) "person from Alloway, Alloa or Alva", the name of various places in Scotland ("rocky plain"); or (ii) from the medieval male personal name Ailwi (from Old English Æthelwīg, literally "noble battle").

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

Variant of Allerston, a habitational surname derived from a place so named in North Yorkshire.

Patronymic from the Middle English forename Alder, derived from two Old English names, Ealdhere ‘ancient army’ and Æðelhere ‘noble army’. Means "son of Aldert".

Derived from the Old English given name Ealdwine.