Northern Irish Submitted Surnames
Northern Irish
names are used in Northern Ireland, a part of the United Kingdom.
Submitted names are contributed by users of this website. The accuracy of these name definitions cannot be guaranteed.
ACTONEnglish, Northern Irish"Oak Town" in Old English. Parishes in Cheshire, Suffolk, Middlesex. There is also a place that bears this name in Ulster.
ARMOURScottish, Northern IrishFrom Middle English, Old French
armure, blended with the agent noun
armer (see
Armer), hence an occupational name for a maker of arms and armor. The collective noun armure denoted offensive weapons as well as the more recently specialized sense of protective gear.
BARRScottish, Northern IrishHabitational name from any of various places in southwestern Scotland, in particular Ayrshire and Renfrewshire, named with Gaelic
barr "height, hill" or a British cognate of this.
BOGLEScottish, Northern IrishFrom a medieval Scottish and Northern Irish nickname for someone of scary appearance (from Middle Scots
bogill "hobgoblin").
BONARScottish, Northern IrishFrom a medieval nickname for a courteous or good-looking person (from Middle English
boner "gentle, courteous, handsome"). A notable bearer of the surname was Canadian-born British Conservative politician Andrew Bonar Law (1858-1923), prime minister 1922-23.
BURGESSNorthern IrishNormal given to the strong me in ireland they normally went to war and put up a good fight they were also normally sons of kings
CRAWEnglish, Scottish, Northern IrishOne who had characteristics of a crow; sometimes used as an element of a place name e.g. Crawford, and Crawfordjohn in Lanarkshire, Crawshawbooth in Lancashire, and Crawley in Sussex
DUNDASScottish, Northern IrishScottish and northern Irish (Counties Leitrim and Fermanagh): habitational name from Dundas, a place near Edinburgh, Scotland, which is named from Gaelic
dùn ‘hill’ +
deas ‘south’.
HARKNESSScottish, English (British), Northern IrishApparently a habitational name from an unidentified place (perhaps in the area of Annandale, with which the surname is connected in early records), probably so called from the Old English personal name
Hereca (a derivative of the various compound names with the first element
here ‘army’) + Old English
næss ‘headland’, ‘cape’...
[more] LAUDERScottish, Northern IrishFrom a village in Berwickshire in the Scottish Borders. It derives from the Celtic
Lauuedder, probably indicating a rapidly flowing river, cognate with Modern Welsh
llifer meaning 'to gush'.
LEMONEnglish, Northern Irish, ScottishEnglish: from the Middle English personal name
Lefman, Old English
Leofman, composed of the elements
leof ‘dear’, ‘beloved’ +
mann ‘man’, ‘person’. This came to be used as a nickname for a lover or sweetheart, from Middle English
lem(m)an...
[more] MCCAMMONScottish, Northern IrishAnglicized form of Gaelic
Mac Ámoinn "son of
Ámoinn", a Gaelic form of the Norse personal name
Amundr, which is composed of the elements
ag "awe, fear", or "edge, point" and
mundr "protection".
MCCORDNorthern Irish, ScottishAnglicized form of Gaelic
Mac Cuairt or
Mac Cuarta, apparently meaning "son of a journey", which Woulfe suggests may be a reduced form of
Mac Muircheartaigh.
MCCORDNorthern Irish, ScottishAnglicized form of Gaelic
Mac Cuairt or
Mac Cuarta, apparently meaning "son of a journey", which Woulfe suggests may be a reduced form of
Mac Muircheartaigh (see
McMurtry).
MCGIVERNNorthern IrishAnglicized form of Gaelic Mac Uidhrín, a patronymic from a personal name which is from a diminutive of odhar 'dun'. This surname is also found in Galloway in Scotland, where it is of Irish origin.
MCMURTRYNorthern Irish, ScottishAnglicized form of Gaelic
Mac Muircheartaigh "son of
Muircheartach", a personal name meaning "navigator", from
muir "sea" and
ceartach "ruler".
MCNULTYNorthern Irish (Anglicized)Irish surname historically associated with County Donegal in northwest Ireland meaning "descended of the Ulaid Nation". The surname is derived from an anglicized contraction of the original Irish patronymic
Mac "descended"
an Ultaigh "Ulaid race".
PINKERTONScottish, Northern IrishHabitual surname for someone from a place near Dunbar, with an unknown meaning (from Old English
tan meaning "enclosure" or "settlement".
REDDICKScottish, Northern IrishHabitational name from Rerrick or Rerwick in Kirkcudbrightshire, named with an unknown first element and
wic "outlying settlement". It is also possible that the first element was originally Old Norse
rauðr "red".
WARDENEnglish, Scottish, Northern IrishFrom Norman French
wardein and
warder meaning "to guard". It coincides the English word
warden and can be used as an occupational surname for a warden.
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