Submitted Surnames on the List of Harry Potter Characters

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Submitted names are contributed by users of this website. The accuracy of these name definitions cannot be guaranteed.

Binns Anglo-Norman

Bones English
Derives from bon, "good" in Old French.

Boot English
Metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of boots, ultimately from Old French bote "boot, high-sided leather shoe".

Boot German, Dutch
Metonymic occupational name for a boat builder, sailor, or a ship’s carpenter, from Dutch boot "boat, ship".

Boot Dutch, German
Patronymic form of Bode, derived from either Old High German boto "messenger, envoy" or the related bot "command, order".

Bulstrode English
Locational surname referring to the medieval village of Bulstrode in Berkshire. ... [more]

Burbage English
Habitational name from any of several places in England, derived from Old English burg "fortress, citadel" and bæc "stream, brook".

Carrow English
English: habitational name from either of two places: Carrow in Norfolk or Carraw in Northumberland. The first is thought to be named from Old English carr ‘rock’ (a Celtic loan word) + hoh ‘spur of a hill’, while the last may be named either from an Old British plural of carr, or from carr + Old English raw ‘row’... [more]

Cattermole English
Found mainly in Norfolk and Suffolk. Meaning uncertain; possibly from an east Anglian term meaning “dweller at the dyke”, or from Old French quatre moles “four mills”.

Chang Korean
Variant romanization of Jang.

Chang Hui

Clearwater English

Corner English

Crabbe English, Literature, Popular Culture
The character 'Vincent Crabbe' has this surname in the Harry Potter series.

Creevey Celtic
Variant of Creevy.... [more]

Cresswell English

Delacour French
Probably based off the term "de la cœur", meaning "on the court".

Derwent English
Originating from Derwent River in England.

Diggory English
Possibly an anglicized form of Degaré, which might come from the French word egare. It might mean "the lost one".

Dursley English (British)
Of English origin and is locational from a place so called in Gloucestershire, which was first recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as 'Dersilege', in the Pipe Rolls of Gloucestershire in 1195 as 'Derseleie' and in the Fees of 1220 as 'Dursleg'... [more]

Edgecombe English
From a location meaning ridge valley, from Old English ecg "edge, ridge" and cumb "valley".

Everard English
From the given name Everard

Finnigan Irish
This interesting surname is of Irish origin, and is an Anglicization of the Gaelic Ó Fionnagáin, meaning the descendant(s) of Fionnagan, an Old Irish personal name derived from the word "fionn", white, fairheaded.

Flamel French
Meaning unknown. Proposals include french flamme meaning "flame" or a description of origin, such as "Flemish", or the French term for the same word, Flamand.... [more]

Flint English, German
Topographic name for someone who lived near a significant outcrop of flint, Old English, Low German flint, or a nickname for a hard-hearted or physically tough individual.

Fudge African American
Variant of Fulcher.

Gaunt English
This name is believed to have derived "from the town of Gaunt, now Ghent, in Flanders."... [more]

Goldstein Jewish
Means "gold stone" in German.

Hooch Dutch (Americanized, Rare, Archaic)
Possibly an archaic or Americanized form of Dutch Hoog "high, tall".

Jordán Spanish, Hungarian
From the given name Jordán.

Krum German, Jewish, Scandinavian
Variant of Krumm.

Lockhart Scottish, German
Scottish: of uncertain origin, probably from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements loc ‘lock’, ‘bolt’ + hard ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’. English: occupational name for a herdsman in charge of a sheep or cattlefold, from Old English loc ‘enclosure’, ‘fold’ + hierde ‘herd(er)’.

Longbottom English, Literature, Popular Culture
English (West Yorkshire) topographic name for someone who lived in a long valley, from Middle English long + botme, bothem ‘valley bottom’. Given the surname’s present-day distribution, Longbottom in Luddenden Foot, West Yorkshire, may be the origin, but there are also two places called Long Bottom in Hampshire, two in Wiltshire, and Longbottom Farm in Somerset and in Wiltshire.

Lovegood Literature (Modern), Popular Culture
The Character 'Luna Lovegood' in the Harry Potter has last name as well as 'Xenophilius Lovegood'.

Lupin Bengali

Lupin French
Lupin is a variant on the Latin word "lupus", meaning "wolf". Two important literary characters, Arsène Lupin, the famous French gentleman-burglar, and Professor Remus Lupin, from the world of Harry Potter, have this name... [more]

Macnair Scottish
Variant of McNair.

Malfoy French
Malfoy is a French name roughly translating to "bad faith"

Maxime French
From the French given name Maxime.

McGonagall Celtic
Variant of McGonigle. ... [more]

McLaggen English

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

Nott English

Peverell English
Variant of Peverall.

Pomfrey Literature

Riddle English

Sinistra English
Sinistra - last name used by a Harry Potter character. She is a Hogwarts professor in Astronomy, Aurora Sinistra.

Slughorn Popular Culture
Combination of English words "slug" and "horn". It is widely known as a name in the Harry Potter series.

Snape English (British), Scottish
An old, now rare surname, with various origins in Suffolk and Yorkshire in England and Lanarkshire in Scotland, derived from Middle English snaipen, “to injure; to nip (of sleet or snow); to criticize, rebuke, revile”, from Old Norse sneypa, “to disgrace, to dishonor, to outrage”... [more]

Sprout English
This name is derived from the name of an ancestor, meaning "the son of Sprot".... [more]

Vane English
Possible variant of Fane.

Yaxley English
Meant "person from Yaxley", Cambridgeshire and Suffolk ("glade where cuckoos are heard").

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