Furcifer's Personal Name List

Adler
Usage: German, Jewish
Pronounced: AD-lu(German) AD-lər(English)
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Means "eagle" in German.
Albero
Usage: Italian
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From Italian albero meaning "tree", ultimately from Latin arbor, referring to someone who lived in the woods or worked as a woodcutter.
Appelhof
Usage: Dutch
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Indicated a person who lived by or at an apple garden, from Dutch appel "apple" and hof "yard, court".
Appleby
Usage: English
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From the name of various English towns, derived from Old English æppel "apple" and Old Norse býr "farm, settlement".
Arbor
Usage: English
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Arbore
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: AR-bo-reh
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From Latin arbor meaning "tree".
Ash
Usage: English
Pronounced: ASH
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From Old English æsc meaning "ash tree", indicating a person who lived near ash trees.
Ashfield
Usage: English
Pronounced: ASH-feeld
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Meaning "ash tree field".
Bagley
Usage: English
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From various English place names, derived from the Old English given name Bacga combined with leah "woodland, clearing".
Barlow
Usage: English
Pronounced: BAHR-lo
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Derived from a number of English place names that variously mean "barley hill", "barn hill", "boar clearing" or "barley clearing".
Bass
Usage: English
Pronounced: BAS
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English cognate of Basso.
Beach
Usage: English
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Name for someone living near a beach, stream, or beech tree.
Beacher
Usage: English
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Means "near the beech trees".
Bean
Usage: English
Pronounced: BEEN
English cognate of Bohn.
Bear
Usage: English
From the Middle English nickname Bere meaning "bear" (Old English bera, which is also found as a byname), or possibly from a personal name derived from a short form of the various Germanic compound names with this first element. Compare for example Bernhard. The bear has generally been regarded with a mixture of fear and amusement because of its strength and unpredictable temper on the one hand and its clumsy gait on the other, and in the medieval period it was also thought to typify the sins of sloth and gluttony. All these characteristics are no doubt reflected in the nickname. Throughout the Middle Ages the bear was a familiar figure in popular entertainments such as bear baiting and dancing bears.
Bearcub
Usage: English (American, Rare)
Surname meaning a bear cub.
Beaumont
Usage: French, English
Pronounced: BO-MAWN(French) BO-mahnt(English)
From French place names derived from beau "beautiful" and mont "mountain".
Beech
Usage: English
Dweller at the beech tree.
Bellerose
Usage: French
Means "beautiful rose" in French.
Berg
Usage: German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Pronounced: BEHRK(German)
From Old High German, Old Dutch and Old Norse berg meaning "mountain".
Birch
Usage: English, German, Danish, Swedish (Rare)
From Middle High German birche, Old English birce, Old Danish birk, all meaning "birch". This was likely a topographic name for someone living by a birch tree or a birch forest. It may also be a habitational name from places in Germany named with this word (see also: Birke).
Bird
Usage: English
Pronounced: BURD
Occupational name for a person who raised or hunted birds.
Blackwood
Usage: English, Scottish
Pronounced: BLAK-wuwd(English)
From an English place name meaning "black wood".
Blom
Usage: Swedish
Means "bloom, flower" in Swedish.
Blumenthal
Usage: German, Jewish
Pronounced: BLOO-mən-tal(German)
Derived from German Blumen "flowers" and Thal "valley".
Boomgarden
Usage: German, Dutch (?)
Either an occupational name for an orchard worker or a topographic name for someone who lives in or by an orchard.
Brook
Usage: English
Pronounced: BRUWK
Denoted a person who lived near a brook, a word derived from Old English broc.
Buckley 1
Usage: English
Pronounced: BUK-lee
From an English place name derived from bucc "buck, male deer" and leah "woodland, clearing".
Bull
Usage: English
Pronounced: BUWL
From a nickname for a person who acted like a bull.
Bullock
Usage: English
Pronounced: BUWL-ək
From a nickname meaning "young bull".
Bush
Usage: English
Pronounced: BUWSH
Originally a name for a person who lived near a prominent bush or thicket.
Caulfield
Usage: English
From a place name meaning "cold field", from Old English ceald "cold" and feld "pasture, field".
Cavallo
Usage: Italian
Means "horse" in Italian, an occupational name for a horseman.
Citrine
Usage: Jewish
An invented Jewish name based on Yiddish tsitrin "lemon tree".
Clifford
Usage: English
Pronounced: KLIF-ərd
Derived from various place names that meant "ford by a cliff" in Old English.
Colt
Usage: English
Pronounced: KOLT
Occupational name for a keeper of horses, derived from Middle English colt.
Cowden
Usage: English
From various English place names, which meaning either "coal valley", "coal hill" or "cow pasture" in Old English.
Dale
Usage: English
Pronounced: DAYL
From Old English dæl meaning "valley", originally indicating a person who lived there.
Deering
Usage: English
From the Old English given name Deora meaning "dear, beloved".
Del Río
Usage: Spanish
Means "of the river" in Spanish.
Eagle
Usage: English
Nickname for a lordly, impressive, or sharp-eyed man, from Middle English egle "eagle" (from Old French aigle, from Latin aquila).
Elk
Usage: Northern African
Everly
Usage: English
Pronounced: EHV-ər-lee
From place names meaning derived from Old English eofor "boar" and leah "woodland, clearing".
Fields
Usage: English
Pronounced: FEELDZ
Name for a person who lived on or near a field or pasture, from Old English feld.
Fish
Usage: Medieval English, Jewish
From Middle English fische, fish ‘fish’, a metonymic occupational name for a fisherman or fish seller, or a nickname for someone thought to resemble a fish.
Americanized spelling of German and Jewish Fisch.
Flores
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: FLO-rehs
Means "son of Floro" in Spanish.
Flower
Usage: English
Pronounced: FLOW-ər
From Middle English flour meaning "flower, blossom", derived from Old French flur, Latin flos. This was a nickname given to a sweet person. In other cases it could be a metonymic occupational name for a maker of flour (a word derived from the same source).
Ford
Usage: English
Pronounced: FAWRD
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).
Forest
Usage: English, French
Pronounced: FAWR-ist(English)
Originally belonged to a person who lived near or in a forest. It was probably originally derived, via Old French forest, from Latin forestam (silva) meaning "outer (wood)".
Forester
Usage: English
Pronounced: FAWR-is-tər
Denoted a keeper or one in charge of a forest, or one who has charge of growing timber in a forest (see Forest).
Forsberg
Usage: Swedish
Derived from Swedish fors meaning "waterfall" and berg meaning "mountain".
Fox
Usage: English
Pronounced: FAHKS
From the name of the animal. It was originally a nickname for a person with red hair or a crafty person.
Frog
Usage: English
Pronounced: FRAHG
From the English word frog which is a type of amphibian.
Frost
Usage: English, German
Pronounced: FRAWST
From Old English and Old High German meaning "frost", a nickname for a person who had a cold personality or a white beard.
Gardener
Usage: English
Pronounced: GAHR-də-nər
Occupational surname for one who was a gardener, from Old French jardin meaning "garden" (of Frankish origin).
Gatti
Usage: Italian
Means "cat" in Italian, originally a nickname for an agile person.
Gold
Usage: English, German, Jewish
Pronounced: GOLD(English) GAWLT(German)
From Old English and Old High German gold meaning "gold", an occupational name for someone who worked with gold or a nickname for someone with yellow hair. As a Jewish name it is ornamental.
Grover
Usage: English
Pronounced: GRO-vər
From Old English graf meaning "grove of trees". A famous bearer was the American president Grover Cleveland (1837-1908).
Hawk
Usage: English
Pronounced: HAWK
Originally a nickname for a person who had a hawk-like appearance or who acted in a fierce manner, derived from Old English hafoc "hawk".
Hawthorne
Usage: English
Pronounced: HAW-thawrn
Denoted a person who lived near a hawthorn bush, a word derived from Old English hagaþorn, from haga meaning "haw berry" and þorn meaning "thorn bush". A famous bearer was the American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), author of The Scarlet Letter.
Hirsch 1
Usage: German
Means "deer, hart" in German. This was a nickname for a person who resembled a deer in some way, or who raised or hunted deer.
Lake
Usage: English
Topographic name for someone who lived by a stream, Old English lacu, or a habitational name from a place named with this word, for example in Wiltshire and Devon. Modern English lake (Middle English lake) is only distantly related, if at all; it comes via Old French from Latin lacus. This meaning, which ousted the native sense, came too late to be found as a place name element, but may lie behind some examples of the surname.
Linden
Usage: German, Dutch
Indicated a person who lived near a linden tree, derived from Old High German linta or Old Dutch linda.
Luna
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: LOO-na
From various places in Spain meaning "moon".
Maize
Usage: English
Mansfield
Usage: English
Means "open land by the River Maun," from the Celtic river name + the Old English word "feld."
Mountain
Usage: English
Topographic name from Old French montagne "mountain" (see Montagne).
Oak
Usage: English
Topographic surname for someone who lived near an oak tree or in an oak wood, from Middle English oke "oak".
Peacock
Usage: English
Pronounced: PEE-kahk
From Middle English pecok meaning "peacock". It was originally a nickname for a proud or haughty person.
Plant
Usage: English
An occupational surname for a gardener.
Reed
Usage: English
Pronounced: REED
Variant of Read 1.
Ridge
Usage: English
Pronounced: RIJ
Denoted a person who lived near a ridge, from Old English hrycg.
Rivera
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: ree-BEH-ra
From Spanish ribera meaning "bank, shore", from Latin riparius.
Rock
Usage: English
Topographic name for someone who lived near a notable crag or outcrop, from Middle English rokke "rock" (see Roach), or a habitational name from a place named with this word, as for example Rock in Northumberland.
Rosa
Usage: Italian, Catalan
Italian and Catalan form of Rose 1.
Rosales
Usage: Spanish
Means "rose bushes" in Spanish.
Rose 1
Usage: English, French, German, Jewish
Pronounced: ROZ(English, French) RO-zə(German)
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).
Rowan
Usage: Irish
Anglicized form of Ó Ruadháin.
Salmon
Usage: English, French
Derived from the given name Solomon.
Sands
Usage: English
Pronounced: SANDZ
From Old English, indicated the original nearer lived on sandy ground.
Shell
Usage: American
Posibly from the given name Shell.
Silver
Usage: English
Pronounced: SIL-vər
From a nickname for a person with grey hair, from Old English seolfor "silver".
Starr
Usage: English
Pronounced: STAHR
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From Middle English sterre meaning "star". This was usually a nickname, but it could also occasionally be a sign name from the name of an inn called the Star.
Steele
Usage: English
Pronounced: STEEL
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Occupational name for a steelworker, from Old English stele meaning "steel".
Sterling
Usage: Scottish
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Derived from city of Stirling, which is itself of unknown meaning.
Storm
Usage: English, Low German, Dutch, Scandinavian
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Nickname for a man of blustery temperament, from Middle English, Middle Low German, storm, Old Norse stormr "storm".
Stream
Usage: English
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English topographic name for someone who lived beside a stream, Middle English streme. Americanized form of Swedish Ström or Danish Strøm (see Strom).
Summerfield
Usage: English
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Originally indicated the bearer was from a town of this name, derived from Old English sumor "summer" and feld "field".
Thorn
Usage: English, Danish
Pronounced: THAWRN(English)
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Originally applied to a person who lived in or near a thorn bush.
Vogel
Usage: German, Dutch
Pronounced: FO-gəl(German)
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From Old High German and Old Dutch fogal meaning "bird". It was originally an occupational name for a bird catcher, or a nickname for a person who liked to sing.
Winfield
Usage: English
Pronounced: WIN-feeld
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From various English place names, derived from Old English winn "meadow, pasture" and feld "field".
Wolf
Usage: German, English
Pronounced: VAWLF(German) WUWLF(English)
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From Middle High German or Middle English wolf meaning "wolf", or else from an Old German given name beginning with this element.
Wood
Usage: English, Scottish
Pronounced: WUWD(English)
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Originally denoted one who lived in or worked in a forest, derived from Old English wudu "wood".
Woodward
Usage: English
Pronounced: WUWD-wərd
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Occupational name for a forester, meaning "ward of the wood" in Old English.
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