Sharley's Personal Name List
Ashworth
From an English place name meaning "ash enclosure" in Old English.
Beckett
Usage: English
Pronounced: BEHK-it
Causey
Indicated a person who lived near a causeway, from Old French caucie.
Cloutier
Usage: French
Pronounced: KLOO-TYEH
Derived from French clou meaning "nail", referring to someone who made or sold nails.
Deering
From the Old English given name Deora meaning "dear, beloved".
De la Fuente
Means "of the fountain" in Spanish.
Ellsworth
Habitational name for a person from the town of Elsworth in Cambridgeshire. The town's name is derived from the masculine given name
Ella (a short form of Old English names beginning with the elements
ælf meaning "elf" or
eald meaning "old") combined with
worþ meaning "enclosure".
Endicott
Topographic name derived from Old English meaning "from the end cottage".
Fairclough
From a place name meaning "fair ravine, fair cliff" in Old English.
Harlow
Usage: English
Pronounced: HAHR-lo(American English) HAH-lo(British English)
Habitational name derived from a number of locations named Harlow, from Old English
hær "rock, heap of stones" or
here "army", combined with
hlaw "hill".
Kelley
Usage: Irish
Pronounced: KEHL-ee(English)
Kozlov
Usage: Russian
Other Scripts: Козлов(Russian)
Pronounced: kuz-LOF
Derived from Russian
козёл (kozyol) meaning
"male goat", probably used to denote a goatherd.
Kozłow
Usage: Polish
Pronounced: KAWZ-wawf
Marlow
Usage: English
Pronounced: MAHR-lo(American English) MAH-lo(British English)
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).
Mercer
Usage: English
Pronounced: MUR-sər(American English) MU-sə(British English)
Occupational name for a trader in textiles, from Old French mercier, derived from Latin merx meaning "merchandise".
Merlo
Usage: Italian, Spanish
Pronounced: MEHR-lo
Means "blackbird", ultimately from Latin merula. The blackbird is a symbol of a naive person.
Merrill 1
Usage: English
Pronounced: MEHR-əl
Derived from the given name
Muriel.
Northrop
Originally denoted one who came from a town of this name England, meaning "north farm".
Outterridge
Derived from the Old English given name
Uhtric.
Pelletier
Usage: French
Pronounced: PEHL-TYEH
Derived from Old French pelletier "fur trader".
Rigby
Usage: English
Pronounced: RIG-bee
Originally derived from the name of a town in Lancashire, itself from Old Norse
hryggr "ridge" and
býr "farm, settlement".
Southgate
Name for a person who lived near the southern gate of a town or in a town named Southgate, from Old English
suþ and
gæt.
Valdez
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: bal-DETH(European Spanish) bal-DEHS(Latin American Spanish)
Valerio
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: va-LEH-ryo
Vitali
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: vee-TA-lee
Vlahović
Usage: Serbian, Croatian
Other Scripts: Влаховић(Serbian)
Patronymic from Serbo-Croatian Vlah meaning "Romanian, Wallachian".
Winslow
Usage: English
Pronounced: WINZ-lo
Derived from an Old English place name meaning
"hill belonging to Wine".
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