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

Waterfield English
Derived from a town named Vatierville.

Weathers English

Weatherspoon English
Variant of Witherspoon.

Webber English, Jewish
Variant of Weber.

Weir Scottish, English
Topographic name for someone who lived by a dam or weir on a river.

Weld English
Meant "one who lives in or near a forest (or in a deforested upland area)", from Middle English wold "forest" or "cleared upland". A famous bearer is American actress Tuesday Weld (1943-).

Welsh Scottish, English
Ethnic name for someone from Wales or a speaker of the Welsh language. Compare Walsh and Wallace.

Wharton English
Derived from an Olde English pre 7th Century river name Woefer.

Whipple English
English surname of uncertain meaning. It might be a shortened form of “whippletree”; an early name for the dogwood. It may also be a variation of Whipp – an early surname for someone who carried out judicial punishments.

Whitbread English
Either a metonymic occupational name from Middle English whit bred "white bread" or whete bred "wheat bread" denoting someone who baked or sold bread of the best quality made from wheat... [more]

Whitcomb English (British)
means wide valley

Whitfield English
It is locational from any or all of the places called Whitfield in the counties of Derbyshire, Kent, Northamptonshire and Northumberland, or from the villages called Whitefield in Lancashire, the Isle of Wight and Gloucestershire.

Whitlock English
Nickname for someone with white or fair hair, from Middle English whit ‘white’ + lock ‘tress’, ‘curl’. Compare Sherlock. ... [more]

Whiton English

Whyte Scottish, Irish, English
Variant of White.

Wiggins English
Patronymic form of Wiggin.

Wigmore English
habitational name from Wigmore in Herefordshire so named from Old English wicga in the sense "something moving quaking unstable ground" and mor "marsh".

Wilber m English
Variant of Wilbur, meaning wild boar.

Wilkes English, Frisian
English: patronymic from Wilk.... [more]

Wind English, German, Danish
Nickname for a swift runner, from Middle English wind "wind", Middle High German wint "wind", also "greyhound".

Wind English
Topographic name for someone who lived near a pathway, alleyway, or road, Old English (ge)wind (from windan "to go").

Wingard English
from Middle English vineyerde vine-yard "vineyard" (Old English wīngeard given a partly French form) hence a topographic name for someone who lived by a vineyard or a metonymic occupational name for someone who worked in one or a habitational name from any place so named such as Wynyard Hall in Grindon (Durham)... [more]

Wiseman English
Variant of Wise combined with the suffix man. It may have also been used ironically.

Witt English
Variant of White.

Woodard English
Variant of Woodward.

Woodbridge English
Originated in old England and likely linked to the town of Woodbridge in Suffolk, East Anglia, United Kingdom. Well known Woodbridge's include the Australian Tennis player Todd Woodbridge. There was a famous lineage of six English John Woodbridge's in the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries, all Church ministers... [more]

Woodhead English (British, Anglicized)

Woodhouse English, Irish
habitational name from any of various places (in Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire, Northumberland, Shropshire, and elsewhere) called Woodhouse, or a topographic name for someone who lived at a "house in the wood" (Middle English wode hous, Old English wudu hus)... [more]

Woodley English (American)
"From the wooded meadow". The actress Shailene Woodley's last surname

Woodring English (American)

Woodruff English, Caribbean
Topographic name for someone who lived on a patch of land where woodruff grew, Anglo-Saxon wudurofe composed of wudu "wood" with a second element of unknown origin.

Worth English
Habitational name from any of several locations derived from Old English worþ "enclosure, enclosed homestead, settlement".

Wrightson English
Means "son of Wright 1".

Zacharias German, Greek, English, Jewish, Assyrian, Indian (Christian), Malayalam
From the given name Zacharias.

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