NamingCharacters's Personal Name List

From a diminutive of the given name Thomas.

From Chinese 孙 (sūn) meaning "grandchild, descendant". A famous bearer of the surname was Sun Tzu, the 6th-century BC author of The Art of War.

Occupational name for a salt worker or someone who lived bear a salt works, from Spanish salina "salt works, salt mine", ultimately from Latin sal "salt".

From a German nickname meaning "rainbow", probably a habitational name for someone who lived in a house with the sign of a rainbow. As a Jewish surname it is ornamental.

From Italian quattro meaning "four" and occhi meaning "eyes", a nickname for a person who wore glasses. It is usually found in Sicily.

Derived from the given name Osborn.

Irish Gaelic form of Driscoll.

Originally a name for a person from Marlow in Buckinghamshire, England. The place name means "remnants of a lake" from Old English mere "lake" and lafe "remnants, remains". A notable bearer was the English playwright and poet Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593).

From Old French maleüré meaning "unfortunate" [1], a term introduced to England by the Normans.

Habitational name for someone who lived near a path across a heath, from Old English hæþ "heath" and weg "way".

Derived from the given name Godwine.

Referred to a person who was born free, or in other words was not a serf.

From a medieval nickname probably meaning either "better-looking of two brothers" or "brother of a good-looking person", or perhaps in some cases "father's brother".

From various English place names derived from Old English ceald "cold" and wille "spring, stream, well".

From Middle English boneire "kind, courteous", derived from Norman French bon aire "good bloodline".

Means "Heaven & Earth" in Japanese