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Sample English, Scottish

Sand English, Scottish, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, German, Jewish
From the vocabulary word sand. As a Swedish and Jewish name, often ornamental. Otherwise topographic.

Sand English, Scottish
Derived from a short form of Alexander.

Sandison Scottish
Possibly a Scottish variant of Sanderson.

Sandstorm Scottish

Sarr English, Scottish

Saunderson English, Scottish
Variant of Sanderson.

Sayles Scottish

Scanes Scottish

Scobbie Scottish

Scobie Scottish
Means "person from Scobie", an unidentified place in Perth and Kinross ("thorny place"). A fictional bearer is Henry Scobie, the conscience-wracked and ultimately suicidal deputy commissioner of police in Graham Greene's West Africa-set novel 'The Heart of the Matter' (1948).

Scot English, Scottish
Variant of Scott.

Scotch Scottish

Scotts Scottish, English
Variant of Scott.

Scroggs Scottish
Derived from a place in Scotland named Scrogges.

Seatter Scottish
From an ancient barony called "The lands of Setter", Stromness, Orkney. Derives from the Ancient Norse word "saetr" meaning a hut or shelter for animals.

Seay Scottish, Irish
Of uncertain origin and meaning.

Selkirk Scottish, English

Sellar Scottish

Sellars Scottish
From the Scottish name for a merchant.

Seth Scottish, Irish
Reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Sithigh or Ó Síthigh (see Sheehy).

Seton Scottish
It has been claimed in the past that the name Seton is Norman in origin, however evidence points to it being Flemish. Various suggestions have been put forward regarding the derivation of the name but nothing proved conclusively; it probably means "town by the sea" and possibly derives from the "sea town" of Staithes in modern day North Yorkshire... [more]

Shade English, Scottish
Topographic name for someone who lived near a boundary, from Old English scead "boundary".

Shankland Scottish
Believed to be a locational name derived from a now-lost or unidentified place name. The name is composed of the Old Scots term "schank," meaning "a projecting point of a hill" or "spur," and the suffix "-land," which indicates land or territory.

Sheepshanks Scottish
From a medieval Scottish and northern English nickname for someone with a strange or awkward way of walking (literally "sheeplegs").

Sheriff English, Scottish
Occupational name for a sheriff, derived from Middle English schiref, shreeve, shryve literally meaning "sheriff", or from Old English scir meaning "shire, administrative district" and (ge)refa meaning "reeve"... [more]

Sievewright English, Scottish
Occupational name indicating one who made sieves.

Silkwood Scottish (Rare)

Sim Scottish, Dutch, English
From the personal name Sim, a short form of Simon 1.

Sinclair Scottish (Anglicized)
Clan Sinclair is a Scottish clan, which held lands in the highlands; thought to have come to Scotland from France after the Norman invasion.

Skene Scottish

Slavin Scottish

Slyver English (American), English (British), English (Canadian), Scottish
Variant of Silver.

Smiley Scots, English
From elements small and lea meaning "a small clearing" or as a nickname may refer to a person of happy disposition known for smiling.

Smithart Scottish, English

Smithhart Scottish, English

Smollett English, Scottish
From a nickname for someone who had a small head.

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]

Sneddon Scottish

Snodgrass Scottish Gaelic

Somerville Scottish, Irish (Anglicized, Rare)
Scottish (of Norman origin) habitational name, probably from Graveron Sémerville in Nord, named with the Germanic personal name Sigimar (see Siemer) + Old French ville ‘settlement’... [more]

Sorlie Scottish
Reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Somhairle (see McSorley).

Souness Scottish (Rare)
Perhaps derived from the place name Soonhouse in the town of Melrose in the Scottish Borders area (which is of uncertain meaning), or from the place names Sun-hlaw or Sunilaw near the town of Coldstream, also in the Scottish Borders in Scotland, meaning "south hill" or "sunny hill" in Old English... [more]

Souter English, Scottish
Occupational name for a cobbler or shoemaker, derived from Middle English soutere, from Old Norse sutare, ultimately derived from Latin sutor meaning "to sew".

Southerland Scottish
Variant of Sutherland.

Southernland English (American), Scottish (Americanized)
Americanized form of Sutherland.

Spaulding Scottish
A variant of Spalding.

Speights Scottish

Spens Scottish
Variant of Spence.

Starratt Scottish
Variant of Starrett.

Sterrett Scottish
Variant of Starrett.

Steven Scottish, English, Dutch, Low German, English (New Zealand)
From the personal name Steven, a vernacular form of Latin Stephanus, Greek Stephanos "crown".

Stinson English, Scottish
This is one of the many patronymic forms of the male given name Stephen, i.e. son of Stephen. From these forms developed the variant patronymics which include Stim(p)son, Stenson, Steenson, and Stinson.

Stirrett Scottish
Variant of Starrett, probably via Sterrett (since that would better explain the sound transformation).

Stoker Scottish, Irish
Means "trumpeter", from Scottish Gaelic and Irish stoc "trumpet, bugle, horn".

Stokes Irish, Scottish
Variant of Stoke and Stohoke... [more]

Stout Scottish, English
Probably a nickname for a brave or powerfully built man, from Middle English stout ‘steadfast’. A contrary origin derives from the Old Norse byname Stútr ‘gnat’, denoting a small and insignificant person.

Strachan Scottish, Caribbean
Scottish habitational name from a place in the parish of Banchory, Kincardineshire, which is first recorded in 1153 in the form Strateyhan, and is perhaps named from Gaelic srath ‘valley’ + eachain, genitive case of eachan ‘foal’.

Stradler German (Austrian), Scottish, English

Strain Scottish, Irish
Derived from the valley of the Aan, or strath Aan.

Stranack Scottish (Anglicized)
Variant of Stronach.

Strathairn Scottish
From Strathearn, the name of a large valley of the River Earn in Scotland, derived from Gaelic srath meaning "river valley, grassland" combined with the river's name. A famous bearer is American actor David Strathairn (1949-).

Stronach Scottish
From Gaelic srónach meaning "nosy" or "sharp-nosed".

Summerlin English, German, Scottish
An English surname.... [more]

Suttie Scottish
Habitational surname for a person from a place called Suthie in Perthshire or possibly from Suddy (or Suddie) in Knockbain.

Swain Scottish, Irish, English
Northern English occupational name for a servant or attendant, from Middle English swein "young man attendant upon a knight", which was derived from Old Norse sveinn "boy, servant, attendant"... [more]

Swan English, Scottish
Originally given as a nickname to a person who was noted for purity or excellence, which were taken to be attributes of the swan, or who resembled a swan in some other way. In some cases it may have been given to a person who lived at a house with the sign of a swan... [more]

Swanney Scottish
Habitational name from Swannay, Orkney

Swinton English, Scottish
From various place names composed of Old English swin "pig, wild boar" and tun "settlement, enclosure".

Symington Scottish
Habitational surname derived from the places of the same name, derived from the given name Simon 1 and northern Middle English ‘ton’ meaning settlement... [more]

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