Impala1729's Personal Name List

Habitational name from any of various places named in Old English as Eaddingtun 'settlement associated with Eadda' or Æddingtun 'settlement associated with Æddi'.

Derived from the Old French and Middle English personal name Amys, Amice, which is either directly from Latin amicus ‘friend’, used as a personal name, or via a Late Latin derivative of this, Amicius.

Name for someone who dwelled by an ash tree, from Middle English asche or asshe meaning "ash tree".

From Middle English baili meaning "bailiff", which comes via Old French from Latin baiulus "porter".

Variant of Bain.

Derived from a number of English place names that variously mean "barley hill", "barn hill", "boar clearing" or "barley clearing".

From the Middle English given name Baye.

Possibly an Americanized form of Beiler.

From Old English beam "beam" or "post". It could be a topographic name from someone living near a post or tree, or it could be a metonymic occupational name for a weaver.

Americanized form of German Boehm or Baum.

Derived from Middle High German becker meaning "baker".

From Middle English belle meaning "bell". It originated as a nickname for a person who lived near the town bell, or who had a job as a bell-ringer.

Possibly a variant of Bell 1 or Bell 2.

Means "beautiful rose" in French.

Irish anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Buadhachanáin, a double diminutive of buadhach ‘victorious’

It is the surname of the famous fictional character Emma Bovary protagonist of Gustave Flaubert's novel.

Occupational name for an archer, derived from Middle English bowe, Old English boga meaning "bow".

Anglicized form of the Irish name Ó Brádaigh meaning "descendant of Brádach". A famous bearer is the American football quarterback Tom Brady (1977-).

From Irish Ó Braonáin meaning "descendant of Braonán", a byname meaning "rain, moisture, drop" (with a diminutive suffix).

Occupational name for a person who operated a cart to transport goods, from Norman French caretier. A famous bearer is the former American president Jimmy Carter (1924-).

From a place name meaning "cold field", from Old English ceald "cold" and feld "pasture, field".

From Middle English chirie, cherye "cherry", hence a metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of cherries, or possibly a nickname for someone with rosy cheeks.
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The surname Cherry was brought to England by a great wave of migration following the Norman Conquest of 1066. The name Cherry is derived from the Anglo Norman French word, 'cherise', which means cherry, and was probably used to indicate someone who lived by a cherry tree.

86,045 people have this surname, and is most prevalent in the United States.

Anglicized form of Mac Fhlannchaidh.

Variant of Cleary

Variant of O'Connor.

Either from the French word corde meaning "cord/rope/string", or from the Latin word cor meaning "heart." This was the surname of Charlotte Corday, the assassin who killed Jacobin leader Jean-Paul Marat during the French revolution.

Means "lamb" in Spanish, either used as an occupational name for a shepherd or a religious name referring to Jesus as the Lamb of God.

Variant of Córdoba.

Unaccented form of Córdova.

From the valley (Dale) of the river Cover.

Miles (Myles) Coverdale, Bishop of Exeter during the reign of Henry VIII, was the first person to translate the complete Bible into English, in 1535.

Irish: reduced form of MacCovey, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Cobhthaigh (see Coffey).
English (Surrey and West Sussex): unexplained.

"Creek".

Means "person who collects, prepares and/or sells herbs and spices" (from Middle English cullen "to pick" + pepper).

An English surname probably derived from the French de la mare, meaning "of the sea", though some contend that "mare" springs from the English word moor. This surname probably arose after the Norman conquest of Britain.

Derived from Middle English dene meaning "valley".

Cognate of Dekker.

Occupational name meaning "dyer" in Old English (originally this was a feminine word, but it was later applied to men as well).

Possibly from French doré meaning "golden". A famous bearer was the French fashion designer Christian Dior (1905-1957).

From the given name Domingo.

Nickname for a gentle minded person from French doux "sweet" (from Latin dulcis).

From the name of various places meaning "east town" in Old English.

From any of the various English towns with this name, derived from Old English ea "river" and tun "enclosure, yard, town".

From Middle English given name Edun, derived from Old English Ēadhūn, with the elements ēad "prosperity, wealth" and hūn "bear cub".
Or refers to someone who lived in Castle Eden or Eden Burn in Country Durham. Both of these come from the name of a British River meaning "water", recorded by Ptolemy as Ituna.

Its meaning That is fruitfulness or fertility. It comes from the Irish name Eire Or Eriu (Erin, Eirinn). Another ancient name is Ivernia (Hibernia or Iverni) and its meaning is the green and fertile lands.

First used as a surname in September 2000, first appearing on a birth certificate in July 2009. Meaning "protected by angels"; the origin is an adopted surname from a type of quartz crystal, often referred to as a new millennium crystal. The el as a prefix is of, or pertaining to and relates to celestial or heavenly.

Variant of Eberhardt.

From place names meaning derived from Old English eofor "boar" and leah "woodland, clearing".

From Irish Gaelic Ó Fearadaigh "descendant of Fearadach", a personal name probably based on fear "man", perhaps meaning literally "man of the wood". A famous bearer was British chemist and physicist Michael Faraday (1791-1867).

From a name for someone who dwelt near a marsh, from Old English fenn meaning "fen, swamp, bog".

Status name for a free man, as opposed to a bondsman or serf, in the feudal system, from Middle High German vri "free", "independent".

English of uncertain origin; probably a variant of Catlin or Gadling, a nickname from Old English gœdeling ‘kinsman’, ‘companion’, but also ‘low fellow’.

English variant of Gatlin. Possibly a respelling of German Gättling (see also Gatlin).

Derived from the given name Gib.

English from the medieval personal name Gibbon, a pet form of Gibb.

Patronymic formed from a diminutive of Gib.

Means "son of Gib".

From the Old English word gara meaning "triangular plot of land".

Variant of Gray.

As a Scottish surname, this is either a habitational name for a person from the village of Guthrie near Forfar, itself from Gaelic gaothair meaning "windy place" (a derivative of gaoth "wind") and the locative suffix -ach, or alternatively it might possibly be an Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mag Uchtre meaning "son of Uchtre", a personal name of uncertain origin, perhaps related to uchtlach "child".

As an Irish surname, it was adopted as an English translation of Gaelic Ó Fhlaithimh "descendant of Flaitheamh", a byname meaning "prince". This is the result of an erroneous association of the Gaelic name in the form Ó Fhlaithimh (Fh- being silent) with the Gaelic word laithigh "mud", and of mud with gutters, and an equally erroneous association of the Scottish surname Guthrie with the word gutter.

Derived from various place names in England named with Old English halig "holy" and well "spring, well".

English: topographic name from Middle English hal(l)owes ‘nooks’, ‘hollows’, from Old English halh (see Hale). In some cases the name may be genitive, rather than plural, in form, with the sense ‘relative or servant of the dweller in the nook’.

Variant of Halliwell meaning "holy spring".

Means "male deer". It was originally acquired by a person who lived in a place frequented by harts, or bore some resemblance to a hart.

Anglicized form of Irish Ó hAodha meaning "descendant of Aodh".

From various English place names, derived from Old English hol "hollow, sunken, deep" and denu "valley".

Occupational name for someone who put the metal hoops around wooden barrels.

Occupational name that referred to someone who hunted for a living, from Old English hunta.

From the given name Joseph.

Derived from the Irish Gaelic name Caomhánach, which means "a student of saint Caomhán". It was the name used by a 12th-century king of Leinster, Domhnall Caomhánach, the eldest son of the historic Irish king Diarmait Mac Murchada.

From Old English cyning "king", originally a nickname for someone who either acted in a kingly manner or who worked for or was otherwise associated with a king. A famous bearer was the American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968).

From the French la ramée "the small wood, the arbour".

English: habitational name from any of various minor places named Loxley, as for example one in Warwickshire, which is named with the Old English personal name Locc + leah ‘woodland clearing’.

Transferred use of the surname Loxley.

From various places in Spain meaning "moon".

Variant of Lester.

Anglicized form of MacAoidh.

Anglicized form of Mac an tSaoi, meaning "son of the scholar".

Referred to one who lived in a meadow, from Old English mædwe.

Occupational surname meaning "miller", referring to a person who owned or worked in a grain mill, derived from Middle English mille "mill".

Originally indicated a person from the town of Moyon in Normandy.

An anglicized form of the Gaelic surname O Naraigh. This surname is derived from the personal name Narach which means modest.

Derived from Slavic novŭ "new", originally a name for someone who was new to a village.

Habitational name from the former Galician juridical district Terra de Nóvoa, in Ourense province.

Derived from the given name Oliver.

English habitational name from Pennywell in Tyne and Wear or from a similarly named lost place elsewhere.

Feminine form of Petrov.

English: topographic name for someone who lived by a hill with a sharp point, from Old English pic ‘point’, ‘hill’, which was a relatively common place name element.
English: metonymic occupational name for a pike fisherman or nickname for a predatory individual, from Middle English pike.
English: metonymic occupational name for a user of a pointed tool for breaking up the earth, Middle English pike.
English: metonymic occupational name for a medieval foot soldier who used a pike, a weapon consisting of a sharp pointed metal end on a long pole, Middle English pic (Old French pique, of Germanic origin).
English: nickname for a tall, thin person, from a transferred sense of one of the above.
English: from a Germanic personal name (derived from the root ‘sharp’, ‘pointed’), found in Middle English and Old French as Pic.
English: nickname from Old French pic ‘woodpecker’, Latin picus. Compare Pye and Speight.
Irish: in the south, of English origin; in Ulster a variant Anglicization of Gaelic Mac Péice (see McPeake).
Americanized spelling of German Peik, from Middle Low German pek ‘sharp, pointed tool or weapon’.

Originally given to a person who played on a pipe (a flute).

Nickname from Middle English, Old French prince (Latin princeps), presumably denoting someone who behaved in a regal manner or who had won the title in some contest of skill.

Transferred use of the surname Radley.

From rēadlēah meaning "red clearing". Radley is a village and civil parish in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England.

Americanized form of Rieser. A famous bearer is American actress Elizabeth Reaser (1975-).

Derived from the given name Rhys.

Variant of Read 1.

Derived from the given name Rhys.

Scots variant of Read 1.

From the name of the town of Rimington in Lancashire, derived from the name of the stream Riming combined with Old English tun meaning "enclosure, town".

Denoted a person who hailed from one of the various places of this name in England. The places are derived from Old English hreod "reed" or ryddan "to strip, to clear" combined with leah "woodland, clearing".

Variant of Reilly.

Means "bank, shore" in Italian, from Latin ripa, denoting one who lived by a river or a lake.

From Spanish ribera meaning "bank, shore", from Latin riparius.

Denoted a person who lived near a river, from Middle English, from Old French riviere meaning "river", from Latin riparius meaning "riverbank".

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).

Means "Roses" in German

Means "rose mountain" in German and Swedish. As a Swedish and Jewish name it is ornamental.

From Middle High German rot meaning "red". It was originally a nickname for a person with red hair.

Derived from the Italian masculine given name Salvatore, which in turn was derived from the Italian noun salvatore meaning "saviour, rescuer". The word ultimately comes from Latin salvator meaning "saviour". The word came into use as a given name in honour of Jesus Christ, who was regarded as the saviour of all mankind and of the world. It eventually found use as a surname as well, in the form of a patronymic (i.e. via the given name).

From a nickname for a person with grey hair, from Old English seolfor "silver".

Variant of Sloan.

Nickname denoting someone with very white hair or an exceptionally pale complexion, from Old English snaw "snow".
Americanized and shortened form of any of the Jewish ornamental names composed with German Schnee, Schnei, Schneu ‘snow’ as the first element.

Habitational name from Snowden, a place in West Yorkshire named from Old English snāw ‘snow’ + dūn ‘hill’, i.e. a hill where snow lies long.

Variant spelling of Snowden, a surname initially used by the Border Reivers. Comes from the mountain in Wales.

Means "tailor", derived from Middle English snithen "to cut", an occupational name for a person who stitched coats and clothing.

Means "starling (bird)" in German, probably denoting a talkative or perhaps a voracious person. Alternatively, an Anglicized form of Stern 2.

Nickname for a man of blustery temperament.

Variant of Sumner.

Of Norman origin, possibly derived from an unattested Germanic given name composed of the elements dala "to destroy" and bod "message".

Occupational name for a person who tanned animal hides, from Old English tannian "to tan", itself from Late Latin and possibly ultimately of Celtic origin.

Created by author George R. R. Martin for his series A Song of Ice and Fire, published beginning 1996, and the television adaptation Game of Thrones (2011-2019). The Targaryens were the rulers of Westeros for almost 300 years until shortly before the beginning of the first novel. The name is presumably from the Valyrian language, though Martin provides no explanation of the meaning.

Derived from the Old English given name Tata.

Variant of Tatham.

English (Yorkshire) habitational name from Thackray in the parish of Great Timble, West Yorkshire, now submerged in Fewston reservoir. It was named with Old Norse þak ‘thatching’, ‘reeds’ + (v)rá ‘nook’, ‘corner’.

From Hungarian vad meaning "wild", either a nickname or an occupational name for a hunter of wild game.

Variant of Vallance.

Topographic name for someone who lived in a valley, Middle English vale (Old French val, from Latin vallis). The surname is now also common in Ireland, where it has been Gaelicized as de Bhál.

From Spanish vega meaning "meadow, plain", of Basque origin.

Variant of Westley.

From the name of various English towns, derived from Old English welig "willow" and Old Norse býr "farm, settlement".

This is an English residential or perhaps occupational surname. It may originate from one of the various places in England called 'The Willows', or even a place such as Newton le Willows in Lancashire, or it may describe a supplier of willow.

From an English place name, derived from Venta, of Celtic origin, and Latin castrum meaning "camp, fortress".

From Middle High German or Middle English wolf meaning "wolf", or else from an Old German given name beginning with this element.