Browse Submitted Surnames - Behind the Name

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DOW Scottish, Irish, English, Dutch (Anglicized), German (Anglicized)
Scottish (also found in Ireland): reduced form of McDow. This surname is borne by a sept of the Buchanans.... [more]

FALLSTEAD English

FARNSWORTH English

FLAY ?

HELMS German

HEMSWORTH English
Habitational name from a place in West Yorkshire, England, meaning "Hymel's enclosure".

HERSHLAG Jewish

HIDDLESTON English, Scottish
Habitational name from a place called Huddleston in Yorkshire, England. The place name was derived from the Old English personal name HUDEL.

HYNEMAN English (American, Anglicized)
Anglicized form of Heineman.

KNIGHTLEY English

MCCARN Irish, Scottish (?)
Reduced form of MCCARRON.

MOODY English, Irish
Either from Middle English modie "angry, haughty, impetuous", or Old English modig "brave, proud".

NEIDENBACH German

NYHOLM Swedish, Danish
Derived from Swedish and Danish ny "new" and holme "islet".

ORANJE Dutch
means "orange" in Dutch, in reference to the Dutch Royal Family

OSBORN English
From the given name OSBORN.

OSMOND English
From the given name Osmond

POL Dutch

PORTMAN English

RAGAN English
A variant of Reagan.

TURNEY English, Norman
Habitational name from places in France called Tournai, Tournay, or Tourny. All named with the pre-Roman personal name TURNUS and the locative suffix -acum.

VANICE Various

VIVALDI Italian

WYNTER English
Variant of Winter.

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