peacedancer's Personal Name List

Possibly a habitational name for someone from Zambrana, a town in the province of Álava in Spain.

Place name for someone from the Polish city of Warsaw, itself derived from the given name Warsz, a short form of Warcisław.

From the given name Vidal.

From a place name, derived from Danish vest "west" and gård "farm, yard".

From the name of the historical Italian city Ventimiglia, now near the French border, ultimately from Latin Albintimilium.

Means "old, aged" in Italian, originally used as a nickname for an older or oldest son or for someone who was prematurely grey or wrinkled.

Means "from Wieren". This is the name of towns in Frisia and other parts of the Netherlands, which mean "seaweed".

From a diminutive of the given name Thomas.

Means "mayor, leader, elder" in Polish.

From a nickname derived from Polish stary meaning "old".

Means "son of Sigurður".

Derived from the name of the Sepúlveda Valley in the mountains of Segovia, and was originally used to denote people from that region. It is possibly derived from Spanish sepultar "to bury".

Ornamental name meaning "beautiful mountain" from German schön "beautiful, good, nice" and berg "mountain".

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 name of a town in central Italy, home to an old Jewish community. The town's name is derived from Italian ponte "bridge" and curvo "curved".

From a nickname meaning "old stomach" in Italian.

Means "pigeon keeper" from Latin palumbes "pigeon".

Low German cognate of Peel.

From Portuguese and Galician nogueira meaning "walnut tree", from the Late Latin nucarius, ultimately from Latin nux meaning "nut".

From Japanese 中 (naka) meaning "middle" and 村 (mura) meaning "town, village".

From Sardinian murta meaning "myrtle".

Ornamental name meaning "morning star" in German.

Korean form of Wen, from Sino-Korean 文 (mun).

Derived from the given name Manfredo.

Means "almond tree" in German.

Means "son of Maas".

Means "teacher" in German (Yiddish לערער (lerer)).

Means "son of Khachatur" in Armenian. A famous bearer was the Armenian composer Aram Khachaturyan or Khachaturian (1903-1978).

Variant of Kaufmann.

English (Durham): of Norman origin, a variant of the male personal name Hildred (ancient Germanic Hild(i)rad, from hild 'battle' and rād 'counsel'). German: from the ancient Germanic personal name composed of hild 'fight, battle' + rāt 'counsel'.

Denoted a person from the Italian city of Genoa (Genova in Italian).

Means "fig tree" in German.

Derived from Maltese farruġ meaning "chicken, cockerel", ultimately from Arabic فُرُوج (furūj). It was used as a nickname for someone who fed chickens.

Dutch cognate of Long.

From Sino-Korean 崔 (choe) meaning "high, lofty, towering".

From a title meaning "holder of four", from Sanskrit चतुर् (chatur) meaning "four" and धुरीय (dhuriya) meaning "bearing a burden".

From a place name meaning "thorny" in Portuguese and Spanish, ultimately from Latin carduus.

From an English surname derived from Old French bel ami meaning "beautiful friend".

From Old High German bur meaning "peasant, farmer".

Derived from the given name Bartolomeo.

Transferred use of the surname Ballard.

Means "crossbow maker" from German armbrust "crossbow". The word armbrust was originally from Latin arcuballista meaning "bow ballista", but was modified under the influence of German arm "arm" and brust "breast".

Means "son of Abraham".