Marrogani's Personal Name List

Derived from Finnish toivo meaning "hope".

Variant of Stewart.

Means "son of Stoyan".

Occupational name for an armourer or swordsman, from Italian spada "sword", Latin spatha.

Means "metalworker, blacksmith" from Old English smiþ, related to smitan "to smite, to hit". It is the most common surname in most of the English-speaking world. A famous bearer was the Scottish economist Adam Smith (1723-1790).

Originally given to a person from Scotland or a person who spoke Scottish Gaelic.

Variant of Schmidt, originating in the Rhine area in western Germany.

Occupational name derived from Middle High German smit "smith, metalworker", a cognate of Smith.

From Middle High German rot "red" and schilt "shield", or Yiddish רויט (roit) and שילד (shild). The famous Rothschild family of bankers took their name from a house with a red shield on it.

From the names of places like Ronco or Ronchi, quite common in northern Italy, derived from ronco meaning "cleared land, terraced land". It was the surname of Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli (1881-1963), the pope John XXIII.

From various place names in England that mean "red cliff" in Old English.

From Swedish öst (Old Norse austr) meaning "east" and berg meaning "mountain".

Derived from Finnish musta meaning "black".

From the name of a lost place in Cheshire, derived from the Old English byname Motere meaning "speaker" and heafod meaning "headland".

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

Means "blackbird", ultimately from Latin merula. The blackbird is a symbol of a naive person.

Variant of McGuinness.

Derived from the given name Leofwine.

Means "the point (of a lance)" in French, possibly a nickname for a soldier.

Name for a person who lived near or worked at a chapel, ultimately from Late Latin cappella, a diminutive of cappa "cape", arising from the holy relic of the torn cape of Saint Martin, which was kept in small churches.

From Czech tkadlec meaning "weaver".

Derived from the given name Gervais.

Either from the given name Janvier or the French word janvier meaning "January", perhaps indicating a person who was baptized in that month.

From the German name of Hořovice, a town in the Czech Republic. Its name is derived from Czech hora "mountain".

From Japanese 緋 (hi) meaning "scarlet, dark red" and 村 (mura) meaning "town, village".

Patronymic from a diminutive of the given name Hendrik.

Nickname for a big person, from Middle English golias meaning "giant" (ultimately from Goliath, the Philistine warrior who was slain by David in the Old Testament).

Derived from old French gagnon "guard dog". The name most likely originated as a nickname for an aggressive or cruel person.

Means "son of Gerald" in Anglo-Norman French. It was brought to Ireland with William the Conqueror. A famous bearer was Ella Fitzgerald (1917-1996), an American jazz singer.

Occupational name meaning "fisherman" in German.

Regional variant of Ferrari. It is typical of the area around Turin.

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

Means "from the fort", from French fort "stronghold".

From Old Norse dalr meaning "valley" and garðr meaning "yard, farmstead".

Means "polite, courteous" in Spanish.

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

From a nickname derived from French chevalier meaning "knight", from Late Latin caballarius "horseman", Latin caballus "horse".

Occupational name derived from Old English ceapmann meaning "merchant, trader".

Variant of Castilla.

Variant of Colquhoun.

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).

Variant of Bellerose.

From Italian bello meaning "beautiful".

From Old French bel ami meaning "beautiful friend".

Variant of Bandyopadhyay.

From German arbeit meaning "work".

From the given name Amatore.

From the name of the Spanish town of Alburquerque, near the Portuguese border in the province of Badajoz. It is probably derived from Latin alba quercus meaning "white oak".

Means "walks like a wealthy person, walks with confidence" in Yoruba.