peacedancer's Personal Name List

Means "son of Abraham".

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".

Transferred use of the surname Ballard.

Derived from the given name Bartolomeo.

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

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

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

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

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

Dutch cognate of Long.

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

Means "fig tree" in German.

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

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'.

Variant of Kaufmann.

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

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

Means "son of Maas".

Means "almond tree" in German.

Derived from the given name Manfredo.

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

Ornamental name meaning "morning star" in German.

From Sardinian murta meaning "myrtle".

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

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

Low German cognate of Peel.

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

From a nickname meaning "old stomach" in Italian.

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 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.

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

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".

Means "son of Sigurður".

From a nickname derived from Polish stary "old".

Means "mayor, leader, elder" in Polish.

From a diminutive of the given name Thomas.

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

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.

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

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

From the given name Vidal.

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

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