Peel

en-proper noun

Peel (countable and uncountable, plural Peels)


Dade

Anglicised from an Irish equivalent of David.


Kincaid

Kincaid (countable and uncountable, plural Kincaids)

Scottish habitational surname from a minor place near Lennoxtown, from Scottish Gaelic ceann (“head, top”) + càithe (“pass”) or cadha (“quagmire”).


Slade

Slade (countable and uncountable, plural Slades)


Marx

This is one of the developments Karl Marx failed to predict. Had he foreseen it he might have expired in guffaws, rolling in the aisle of the British Museum Library amid the notes for Das Kapital, that bearded Santa Claus of the revolution who slipped the unwanted gift of communism down the world's chimneys.

1937 August, Lawrence Martin, "The Odyssey of a Bogeyman", Esquire, Vol. 8, No. 2, p. 39

He discovered that far from focusing on the writings of Marx and Engels for their reading, the Bolsheviks and their children preferred expressly anti-revolutionary works by western authors such as Dickens, Defoe, Shakespeare, Hugo, Balzac, Flaubert, Goethe, Kipling and Wilde.

2017 October 25, Alison Flood, “Russian revolutionaries' children ‘read classic fiction, not Marx’”, in The Guardian:

In his experience, Christ had led him to Marx, and the Gospels, with their message of social justice, had led him to communism.

2020 March 5, “Ernesto Cardenal died on March 1st”, in The Economist:

Karl Marx (1818–1883), a German political philosopher, economist, and sociologist.


Serbin

Both from French Serbin and Russian Сербин (Serbin), both meaning "Serb". It is also an Americanized spelling of the Spanish surname Servin.


Matsumoto

Borrowed from Japanese 松本 (まつもと, Matsumoto).


Cortes

A surname from Spanish, variant of Cortez


Gossage

Named after Air Marshal Sir Ernest Leslie Gossage, Commander-in-Chief RAF Balloon Command 1940-4.


Presley

The English surname is usually a variant of Priestley, from Old English prēost (“priest”) + lēah (“wood, clearing”). Equivalent to priest + -ley (“lea”).
The place-name in Scotland may be from Pictish, equivalent to Welsh prys (“bush”) + Welsh lle (“place”).

بْرِيسْلِي

transliterations of the English name "Presley"


Darby

en-proper noun

Darby (countable and uncountable, plural Darbys)

From the English place name Derby, from Old Norse djúr (“deer”) + býr (“settlement”).


Aston

Aston (countable and uncountable, plural Astons)

From Old English ēast (“east”) and ton (“town, village”). Doublet of Easton.

(countable) A habitational surname from Old English.


Casanova

From Romance Casanova (Spanish Casanova, Italian Casanova, Catalan Casanova). From casa (house) + nova (new). Literally, “new house”.

gloss

A surname from the Romance languages, equivalent to English Newhouse.


Potter

en-proper noun

Potter (countable and uncountable, plural Potters)

From Middle English Potter, English, Dutch, and north German surname, from the noun pot.
The usage for someone from Stoke-on-Trent refers to it being the home of the pottery industry in England, where it is also known as The Potteries.

An English surname originating as an occupation for a potter.


Crean

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Croidheáin (“descendant of Croidheán”), a byname derived from a diminutive of croidhe (“heart”).


Salmon

en-proper noun

Salmon (countable and uncountable, plural Salmons)

Translingual: Salmonella

Salmon (biblical figure)
Salmon (disambiguation)

* (Idaho, river): named after the fish, salmon


Moriarty

From Irish Ó Muircheartaigh (“descendant of Muircheartach”), a name from muir (“sea”) + ceardaí (“craftsman”).


Shevchenko

/ʃeɪvˈtʃɛnkɔː/

/ʃeɪvˈtʃɛŋkəʊ/

Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko (1814–1861), Ukrainian writer


Bibi

Borrowed from Hindi बीबी (bībī) / Urdu بی بی (bī bī, “woman, lady (by Muslims)”), from Classical Persian بیبی (bī-bī).


Bosse

Various origins:
* Borrowed from French Bosse or Bossé, a nickname for a hunchback, from bosse (“bump, hump”).
* Borrowed from South German Bosse, a pet form of the personal name Burkhard.
* Borrowed from Dutch Bosse, a variant of Bosch.


Rowan

Anglicised from the Irish saints' name Ruadhán (“little red one”), or as a surname from Ó Ruadháin (“descendant of Ruadhán”).


Applewhite

Habitational surname from the village of Applethwaite, in the Lake District, from Old Norse apaldr (“apple tree”) + þveit (“clearing”).


Schrödinger

en-proper noun

Schrödinger (countable and uncountable, plural Schrödingers)

From German Schrödinger
* The places are named for physicist Erwin Schrödinger


Lazar

From Middle English [Term?], from lazare (“leper”), from Old French lazare, from Latin lazarus, from Lazarus (name of a biblical figure), from Ancient Greek Λάζαρος (Lázaros), from Hebrew אלעזר (ʼElʻāzār).


Lazar

At that time S.M. Lazar, editor in Cracow of the new Hebrew nespaper, Ha-Miṣpeh, had accused Hurwitz and his editor, Yosef Klausner, of anarchism, sacrilege, and “missionizing.”

1980, Stanley Nash, In Search of Hebraism (Studies in Judaism in Modern Times; 3), Leiden: E. J. Brill, →ISBN, page 191:


Zograf

Historical Macedonian, Bulgarian and Serbo-Croatian personal appellation, later used as pen name, which comes from the tradition of iconography in Eastern Orthodoxy. It comes from the occupation of iconograph or painter: Greek ζωγράφος (zográfos, “painter”), from ζωή (zoḯ, “life”) + -γράφος (-gráfos, “scribe”).

suf

A surname. Famously born by a saint (George the Zograf, an icon in Zograf Monastery) and used as the pen name of a number of Bulgarian iconographs and painters.


Fish

From fish, a metonymic occupational surname for a fish seller or a nickname for someone who resembled a fish. It could also be an Americanized spelling of German Fisch.


Paschal

From Latin paschālis; ultimately from Hebrew פסח (pésakh). Doublet of Pascal and pascal.


Rosse

Borrowed from German Rosse, or a variant of the Scottish surname Ross.


Asmus

Borrowed from Danish, Dutch, German Asmus.


Culverhouse

A topographic surname for someone who lived near a dovecote, or a metonymic surname for someone involved in maintaining a dovecote


Kuban

Borrowed from Czech and Slovak Kubáň or Polish Kuban.


Butcher

A surname originating as an occupation for a butcher.


Watts

Patronymic surname from the Middle English given name Wat, derived from Walter.

A surname transferred from the given name.


Bywater

From by + water, a topographic surname for someone who lived by a lake or river.


Tobler

From the Alemannic German family name, used by families living near a gorge or ravine, from Middle High German Tobel (“gorge, ravine”) + -er (“suffix denoting an inhabitant”).


Sanger

Audio (US)

An occupational surname from Middle English, from Old English sangere (“singer”).


Switzer

From early New High German Schwytzer (modern High German Schweizer) "a Swiss person", especially "a Swiss soldier or mercenary", a designation adopted in the 16th century, ultimately from the toponym Swīz "Schwyz". More at Swiss.


Conleth

Anglicised from Irish Conlao, Conlaodh, from Old Irish Conláed. Saint Conláed was an Irish hermit and the first Bishop of Kildare.


Lau

From Cantonese 劉／刘 (lau4), Hokkien 劉／刘 (Lâu) or Teochew 劉／刘 (lao5). Doublet of Luu.


Colbert

en-proper noun

Colbert (countable and uncountable, plural Colberts)

From a Germanic personal name, composed of Proto-Germanic *kōlaz (“cool, cold; calm”) and *berhtaz (“bright”).


Conley

Anglicization of Irish Ó Conghalaigh and Ó Conghaile, patronyms of Conghalach. Doublet of Connolly

John Conley attested, That in the Lords Faulkland, Grandison and Chichester's times, the King's Rents werde collected by Horse-men, who laid upon them till they were paid.

1683, John Nalson, An Impartial Collection of the Great Affairs of State, From the Beginning of the Scotch Rebellion in the Year MDCXXXIX To the Murther of King Charles I., volume II, London, page 71:

After she was brutally murdered, Jim Conley, the black janitor at the factory, testified that Frank had killed the girl, then forced Conley to dispose of the body.

1984 July 1, Leah D. Frank, “Stage: The Trial of Leo Frank”, in New York Times:


Kevorkian

A variant of Gevorgyan, from Armenian Գևորգյան (Geworgyan).

Jack Kevorkian, euthanasia activist, famously said "dying is not a crime".


Cholmondeley

en-proper noun

Cholmondeley (countable and uncountable, plural Cholmondeleys)

From Middle English Calmundelai (in the Domesday Book), from Old English Ċēolmunde (“Ceolmund's”) + lēah (“wood; clearing”). Doublet of Chulmleigh. Cf. also Cholmondeston.


Patil

A surname from Kannada of Indian origin (Kannada), meaning head or chief.


Sarkozy

From Hungarian Sárközy (“from Sárköz”), from the toponym Sárköz (“mud strip”), literally sár + köz.

Emile Sarkozy’s “Grenadier” Galop; [. . .]

1872, The Musical World, volume 50, London: Duncan Davison & Co., page 803:


Norville

English and Scottish surname of Norman origin meaning "northern town," shortened from Normanville, equivalent to Norman + -ville.


Schindler

Borrowed from German Schindler. Doublet of Shingler.


Trotter

As an English and Scottish surname for a messenger, from trot. As a German surname, from Trotte (“winepress”).


Cockburn

Cockburn (countable and uncountable, plural Cockburns)

→ Translingual: cockburni

Scottish habitational surname, from Old English cocc (“cock, rooster”) + burne (“stream, brook, river”).


Berlusconi

Silvio Berlusconi (born 1936), Italian politician and businessman.


Hodder

(surname): From Middle English occupational name for a maker of hoods, from Old English hod (“hood”), from Proto-Germanic *hōdaz.
:(river): From Brythonic, said to mean "pleasant water," with the second element from Proto-Brythonic *duβr. The first element is uncertain, but compare Welsh hod (“wonderful, strange, excellent”).

cog

An English surname originating as an occupation, for the trade name hodder


Briggs

From the genitive or plural form of Middle English brigge (“bridge”).

A topographic surname from Middle English.


Dubois

en-proper noun

Dubois (countable and uncountable, plural Duboises or Dubois)


Wheeler

Wheeler (countable and uncountable, plural Wheelers)

An English surname, derived from the trade of wheeler.


Sen

Derived from Khmer សេន (seen) or Bengali সেন (Sen).


Morley

en-prop

Morley (countable and uncountable, plural Morleys)

From Old English mor (“moor”) + leah (“wood”). Equivalent to moor + -ley (“lea”).

Yes, it must be hell. It hasn't stopped Hathaway, though. The star of The Princess Diaries and The Princess Diaries 2 is now the star of One Day, playing complicated, mousey Yorkshireperson Emma Morley.

2011 August 21, “Pass notes, No 3,030: Anne Hathaway”, in The Guardian:


Thorne

An English surname from Middle English, variant of Thorn.


Ashe

A topographic surname from Middle English, spelling variant of Ash.


Buchanan

A habitational surname from Scottish Gaelic from Scotland.


Lovelace

From Middle English lufeless (“loveless”), possibly a nickname for a philanderer. In the libertine sense, refers to Robert Lovelace, a character in Samuel Richardson's 1748 novel Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady.

A surname transferred from the nickname.


Burnside

A topographic surname from Middle English for someone living near a burn (stream), or in any of the Scottish towns.


Lennox

From Middle English Levenax, from Scottish Gaelic Leamhanach, meaning field of the Leven. Leamnha is thought to mean elm-water.


Garth

Welsh garth probably has its influence on Welsh place names.


Carpenter

en-proper noun

Carpenter (countable and uncountable, plural Carpenters)

From carpenter, from Latin carpentarius.

A surname originating as an occupation derived from the trade name carpenter.


Sutton

Sutton (countable and uncountable, plural Suttons)

From Old English suþ (“south”) + tun (“town”).

A habitational surname from Old English.


Strickland

Strickland (countable and uncountable, plural Stricklands)

Habitational surname from the villages of Strickland Ketel and Strickland Roger, from Old English stirc (“bullock”) + land.


Rudd

Originally a nickname from Middle English, meaning "red".


Linklater

From Old Norse lyng (“heather”) + klettr (“rock”).


Kardashian

[kʰɑɹˈdæʃi.ən]

Borrowed from Armenian Քարտաշյան (Kʻartašyan) (Western Armenian pronunciation). (adjective): by analogy with -ian.

Maybe a pat on the bottom wasn't a cheap feel. Maybe it was a sweet display of affection. And maybe Kim Kardashian would win an Oscar.

2011, Liz Talley, A Touch of Scarlet, page 55:


Deringer

Borrowed from German Deringer, possibly from Thuringer meaning a person born in Thuringia, formerly a semi-autonomous state in central Germany.


Lockerbie

From the personal name Lockard + the Old Norse suffix byr 'farm'.


Mee

en-prop

Mee (countable and uncountable, plural Mees)

Le Mée-sur-Seine
en:Mee
en:Mee (surname)

* As an English surname, from the archaic noun mee (“physician”). Compare Mayer, Myer.
* As an Irish surname, Anglicized from Ó Miadhaigh (“descendant of Miadhach”), from miadh (“honor”). Compare Meehan, McNamee.
* As a rare French surname (Mée), from placenames such as Le Mée-sur-Seine, from Old French meis (“farmstead”), from Latin mansus.
* (Lunar crater): Named after Scottish British astronomer Arthur Butler Phillips Mee


Blackwell

en-proper noun

Blackwell (countable and uncountable, plural Blackwells)


Faxon

Faxon (countable and uncountable, plural Faxons)

unk

Unexplained

Faxon's obvious course was to struggle through the drifts to the village, and there rout out a sleigh to convey him to Weymore; but what if, on his arrival at Mrs. Culme's, no one remembered to ask him what this devotion to duty had cost?

1916, Edith Wharton, The Triumph of Night:


Fenwick

en-proper noun

Fenwick (countable and uncountable, plural Fenwicks)

From Old English fenn (“fen, marsh”) + wīc (“abode, dwelling-place”).


Bruckner

Borrowed from German Bruckner is likely to be an occupational surname; Brücke - bridge.

A surname from German. Widely known as the surname of the Austrian composer Anton Bruckner (1824-96).


Trump

Trump (countable and uncountable, plural Trumps)

⇒ Translingual: donaldtrumpi

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The surname has two sources.
* English (Devon): an occupational name for a trumpeter, from Middle English trumpe (“trumpet”).
* German (Bavaria): from German Trump, possibly an occupational name for a drummer, from Middle High German trumbe (“drum”), although the alternative forms Trumpf, Drumpf cannot be derived from this (except by postulating them to be hypercorrections)
* The place in Baltimore county was named after settler Simeon Van Trump.

The house at which he was to lodge had been selected with considerable judgment. It was kept by a tidy old widow known as Mrs. Trump; but those who knew any thing of Hamworth affairs were well aware that Mrs. Trump had been left without a shilling, and could not have taken that snug little house in Paradise Row and furnished it completely out of her own means.

1861, Anthony Trollope, chapter XXXII, in Orley Farm:

During their interview, Shahidi asked Clinton about the uncomfortable second presidential debate, during which Trump stalked her around the stage.

2017 December 3, Kayleigh Roberts, “Yara Shahidi Just Asked Hillary Clinton About That Very Uncomfortable Trump Debate”, in Harper's BAZAAR:

Donald Trump (b. 1946), a businessman, television personality and former president of the United States of America (2017-2021).


Fraunce

Fraunce (countable and uncountable, plural Fraunces)


Fisk

Occupational surname for a fisherman, from Old English fisc or Old Norse fiskr, all from Proto-Germanic *fiskaz.


Conan

From Middle Irish Conán, from Primitive Irish ᚉᚑᚅᚐᚅᚅ (conann), a derivative of Proto-Celtic *kū (“dog”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓ.


Nosler

The bullet is named after gunsmith John Nosler.


Stanhope

The British placenames are from Old English stan (“stone”) + hōp (“valley”).

An English habitational surname from Old English.


Tegan

* (female): 20th-century coinage from Welsh tegan (“pet, darling”).
* (surname): Transferred use of Irish Ó Tadhgáin, a surname.
* (male): From Teagan, from a diminutive of Irish Tadhg.

Their next door neighbor told Ott she had seen Tegan the night before the report was made and he did not have any bruises on his head.

2006, Report of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court and in the Court of Appeals of the State of Idaho, page 14:


Abood

Variation of Abboud, from Arabic عَابُّود (ʕābbūd).


Digby

Digby (countable and uncountable, plural Digbies)

From Old English dīc (“dyke”) + Old Norse býr (“settlement”).
The town in Nova Scotia is named after admiral Robert Digby (1732 - 1815).


Farquharson

A Scottish surname transferred from the given name.


Deng

A common surname from Chinese, sometimes romanised as Teng, notably borne by Chinese politician Deng Xiaoping.


Loud

Loud (countable and uncountable, plural Louds)

en:Loud
en:Loud (surname)
en:Louth, Lincolnshire

As an English surname,
* from the adjective loud,
* from the place name Lyde,
* and a spelling variant of Louth in Lincolnshire, itself related to the adjective,
* and finally variants of the Irish surnames McLeod, McLouth.

Clipping of McLoud.: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.


Rameau

A surname from French. Widely known as the surname of the French composer Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764).


Zuckerman

From German Zuckermann Literally, “sugar man” (i.e. confectioner).


Noonan

Noonan (countable and uncountable, plural Noonans)

Anglicization of Irish Ó hIonmhaineáin, from Ionmhaineán, a given name derived from the diminutive of Ionmhain (“beloved, dear”).


Zimmermann

From German Zimmermann, an occupational surname for a carpenter, from the Middle High German zimbermann.


Gillard

From a Middle English diminutive of the male given name Giles.

A surname transferred from the given name.


Bowden

* As an English surname, from several places in England, derived from Old English boga (“bow”) + dun (“hill”).
* Also as an English surname, from Old English būfan dun (“above the hill”).
* As a Scottish surname, from the place in Roxburghshire from Old English bōthl (“dwelling house”) + denu (“valley”).
* As an Irish surname, Anglicized from Ó Buadáin (“descendant of Buadán”) (compare buadhair (“victor, champion”)).
* Also as an English surname, variant of Bawden.


Grau

* As a German surname, borrowed from German Grau, a nickname for someone with grey hair or beard.
* As a Catalan and southern French surname, from Occitan and Catalan Grau, a topographic surname from grau (“degree, level”).
* Also as a Catalan surname, reduced from the personal name Guerau; see Gerald.
* As a French surname, from Old French grau (“kind of fork”), from Frankish/Germanic, probably related to Old Norse grein (“fork, branch”).


Queen

A surname transferred from the nickname, originating as a nickname.


Takanawa

/ˌtɑkəˈnɑwə/


Llewellyn

A surname from Welsh [in turn originating as a patronymic].


Watanabe

Borrowed from Japanese 渡辺 (Watanabe) or 渡部 (Watanabe).


Fujiwara

/ˌfud͡ʒiˈwɑɹə/


Shimabukuro

Borrowed from Japanese 島袋 (Shimabukuro).


Nakamura

Borrowed from Japanese 中村 (Nakamura) or 仲村 (Nakamura).


Bacon

* As an English and French surname, from the noun bacon.
* Also as an English, French, and Norman surname, from the Germanic personal name *Bahho, from Proto-Germanic *bēganą (“to fight”).


Fujihara

/ˌfud͡ʒiˈhɑɹə/


Copeland

A habitational surname from Old English of someone from that area.


Buster

From Austrian German Buste (“pockmark, boil”), from Latin apostema (“boil”), + -er.


Gasbarian

Variant of Gasparyan, from Armenian Գասպարյան (Gasparyan).


Gasparyan

Borrowed from Armenian Գասպարյան (Gasparyan).


Abovyan

Khachatur Abovyan


Milo

An English surname originating as a patronymic transferred from the given name.


Major

en-proper noun

Major (countable and uncountable, plural Majors)

* As an English surname of Norman origin, from the personal name Malgier, via Old French from the Germanic name *Madalgari. See Mauger.
* As a Hungarian surname, shortened from majorosgazda (see Majoros), or borrowed from German Meyer.
* As a Polish, Czech, and Slovak surname, from the military rank major.
* As a Jewish surname, variant of Meyer.
* As a French and Occitan surname, from the adjective majeur and the military rank major. The latter appears in Canadian French, sometimes also as La Major.


Herndon

Herndon (countable and uncountable, plural Herndons)

Habitational surname from a lost or unidentified place.


Bower

Snowdon climbed to the top floor of the house opposite George's in Pimlico to observe the artist in one window and his model, the painter Natalie Bower, in the adjacent.

2007, Antony Armstrong-Jones Snowdon (Earl of), Robin Muir, Pallant House Gallery, In Camera: Snowdon (page 86)


Deniz

Two possible origins:
* Borrowed from Portuguese and Spanish Deniz, from a variant of the personal name Denís.
* Borrowed from Turkish Deniz, an ornamental surname from deniz (“sea”).


Leh

Two main origins:
* Borrowed from German Leh, perhaps an altered spelling of Löh.
* Borrowed from Khmer.


Dench

From Middle English Dench, from Densc (“Danish”), from Old English Denisc, from Proto-Germanic *daniskaz. Doublet of Danish.


Amherst

Amherst
Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst

From either Old English elm or Old Norse almr (“elm”) + Old English hyrst (“wood”). The town in Nova Scotia is named after Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst (1717–1797).


Bieber

Jewish and German surname, from the name Bieber, itself from an old form of modern Biber (“beaver”). Doublet of Beaver. Compare Beaber, Beeber.

Justin Bieber ― (name of a singer)


Perlmutter

Borrowed from German Perlmutter, a Jewish Ashkenazi ornamental surname.


During

Anglicisation of German Dühring or Düring.

"What a woman she is!" muttered Biddy, stooping to pick up the scattered potatoes, "I don't see what Providence meant, a-putting such a saint along with an ugly, growling man like Mr. During. I believe he's in his second childhood, I do! […]

1858, The Peterson Magazine, volumes 33-34, page 235:


Judson

From a Middle English short form of the given name Jordan + son.


Macdonald

A surname, an alternative form of MacDonald.


McDonald

A common spelling variant of MacDonald, from Scottish Gaelic Mac Dhòmhnaill, equivalent to "son of Donald".


Judd

From a Middle English short form of the given name Jordan.


Blaine

en-proper noun

Blaine (countable and uncountable, plural Blaines)


Goy

Various origins:
* English habitational surname of Norman origin, from any of various places in France called Gouy.
* Borrowed from Galician Goy, a habitational surname from a small village in the province of Lugo.
* Borrowed from French Goy, a metonymic occupational surname for a farmer, from Old French goi (“bill hook, kind of knife”).
* Borrowed from Hokkien 倪 (gê); compare Ni, which derives from the standard Chinese pronunciation of these characters.


Carnegie

en-proper noun

Carnegie (countable and uncountable, plural Carnegies)


Stasik

A doubly-derived hypocoristic/diminutive of Polish name: Stanisław -> Staś -> Stasik. Note that the more common Polish diminutive given name is Stasiek.


Babbitt

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Wren

Originally a nickname from Middle English wrenne (“wren”).

A surname transferred from the nickname.


Melkonyan

Borrowed from Armenian Մելքոնյան (Melkʻonyan).


Lide

From the German surname, possibly Americanized from Leid.


Whitehead

Whitehead (countable and uncountable, plural Whiteheads)


Maclean

Maclean (countable and uncountable, plural Macleans)

From Scottish Gaelic MacGilleEathain, patronymic form of a personal name meaning "servant of (Saint) John".

A Scottish surname from Scottish Gaelic.


Selkirk

From Old English sǣl (“hall”) + cirice (“church”).


Denholm

Denholm (countable and uncountable, plural Denholms)

From Old English dene (“valley”) + holm (“islet”).


Bahar

Borrowed from Arabic بَهَار (bahār, “spice, seasoning”), perhaps a metonymic occupational surname for a spicer. It could also be a variant of Bahir.


Banu

* As an Islamic surname (Indian subcontinent), from Urdu بانو (bāno), from Persian بانو (“lady”).
* Borrowed from Bengali বানু (banu), a surname predominantly found in Bangladesh and West Bengal, probably related to the above.
* Borrowed from Romanian Banu, from the medieval title ban; see Ban.


Davids

A surname transferred from the given name derived from the given name David.


Butterworth

en-proper noun

Butterworth (countable and uncountable, plural Butterworths)

/ˈbʌtə(ɹ)ˌwɜː(ɹ)θ/

Habitational surname from a place in Lancashire, from Old English butere (“butter”) + worþ (“enclosure”).
The city in Malaysia is named after William John Butterworth, Governor of the Straits Settlements from 1843 to 1855.


Khalsa

Borrowed from Punjabi ਖ਼ਾਲਸਾ (xālsā) / خالْصَہ (xālṣah), ultimately from Arabic خَالِص (ḵāliṣ, “pure”).


Firestone

Translation of the German toponymic surname Feuerstein, from Feuer (“fire”) + Stein (“stone”). Doublet of Feuerstein.


Carrier

Carrier (countable and uncountable, plural Carriers)


Shapiro

From Yiddish שאַפּיראָ (shapiro). This surname is derived from the Medieval name of Speyer, Germany (compare Spire, the French name for that city). Other name variants attributed to Speyer include Sapiro, Spira, Spire, Spiro, Spero, Chapiro, Sprai, Szpir, Szpiro, Sapir, and Spear. The Jewish community of Speyer was one of three leading cities central to the development of Ashkenazi culture, the others being Worms and Mainz. The family name Speyer (based on the modern German name for the same city) has also become a well known surname that was spread by Jews from Frankfurt to England, the United States, and Canada in the late 19th and early 20th century. Some suggest that the surname derives from the Aramaic word שפירא (Shappirā), meaning "handsome."


Massa

en-proper-noun

Massa (countable and uncountable, plural Massas)

The surname is from Italian Massa. Also found in southern France (see Massey).


Hemming

* As an English, Scottish, and Swedish surname, from the Old Norse personal name Hemingr, variant of Hæmingr, itself of uncertain origin, possibly from hamr, hemingr (“form, shape; skin of an animal”). This word may have been borrowed into Old English as hemming (“a rawhide boot”).
* As a German surname, variant of Hemme.


Liszt

en-proper noun

Liszt (countable and uncountable, plural Liszts)

(countable) A surname of Hungarian origin.


Mosco

* As an Italian and Spanish surname, from Italian Mosco, from the noun mosca (“fly”).
* As a Greek surname, Americanized variant of Moskos.


Pleasance

From an Old French female given name Plaisance, from plaisance (“pleasance”). The surname is partly matronymic, partly habitational from the Italian town of Piacenza.


Ao

From atonal romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 敖 (Áo).


Snopes

At the narrowest, Wasps form a select band of well-heeled, well-descended members of the Eastern Establishment; at the widest, they include Okies and Snopeses, "Holy Rollers" and hillbillies.

1969 January 17, “Essay: Are the WASPS Coming Back? Have They Ever Been Away?”, in Time, →ISSN:


Toms

A surname originating as a patronymic, derived from Tom


Alberts

A surname transferred from the given name derived from the given name Albert.


Chambers

Chambers (countable and uncountable, plural Chamberses)


Marks

A surname transferred from the given name derived from the given name Mark.


Neustadt

Neustadt (countable and uncountable, plural Neustadts)


Daniels

A surname transferred from the given name from the male given name Daniel.


Piet

Piet
Piet (programming language)
Piet Mondrian


Boteler

From Middle English boteler, from Old French boutellier.

A surname originating as an occupation, cognate to the common noun butler.


Clay

Clay (countable and uncountable, plural Clays)

From a Middle English occupational name for a clay worker, or a habitational name, from Old English clǣġ (“clay”).


Battenberg

Battenberg (countable and uncountable, plural Battenbergs)

From German Battenberg. The surname derives from the town in Hesse.

(countable) A surname from German, anglicized in 1917 as Mountbatten.


Dore

* As an English surname, from the noun dore (“kind of bumblebee”).
* Also as an English surname, from the placename Dorr in Derbyshire or Herefordshire; see Dorr. Sometimes influenced or directly from the noun door.
* As an Irish surname, from Ó Doghair (“descendant of Doghar”), a byname meaning "sadness" (compare dubhghràdh, from dubh + gràdh).
* As a French surname, from Old French doré (“golden”). Compare Dorais.
* As a Hungarian surname, from the adjective dőre (“stupid, useless”).


Goddard

* As an English surname of Norman origin, name of a 10th-11th-century German saint, from Old High German got (“God”) + harti,herti (“hard, strong”). Brought to England by Normans. Compare Gothard, Godard.
* As a French surname, variant of Gaudet.


Tanguy

Borrowed from French Tanguy, itself from Breton Tangi.

A surname from French [in turn from Breton].


Peabody

From Middle English Pebody, equivalent to pea (“peacock”) + body (“body, person”).


Duck

The surname is originally a nickname from Middle English doke (“duck”). See duck.


Ives

From the medieval English given name mostly found in the Latinate form Ivo today.


Nobel

A surname from Swedish, especially referring to Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor and philanthropist.


Beerman

Mr. Beerman testified to San Diego's growth and reported that the city has made virtually maximum possible use of local waters available to it.

1958, Arizona Interstate Stream Commission, Annual report of the Arizona Interstate Stream Commission, page 18:


Sheriff

An English surname originating as an occupation.


Willen

* As a German surname, spelling variant of Wille.
* As a Dutch surname, from Willin, related to Wilhelm.


Raines

From Anglo-Norman Reins, Middle French Reins, variant of Reims, the French town where the fabric was originally produced.


Burgess

From Anglo-Norman burgeis (“town-dweller”), of Germanic origin; either from Late Latin burgus or directly from its source Frankish *burg.

A surname transferred from the common noun.


Mecklenburg

Mecklenburg (countable and uncountable, plural Mecklenburgs)


Zuckerberg

Borrowed from German Zuckerberg. From German Zucker (“sugar”) + Berg (“mountain”).

With TikTok's future now increasingly unclear, and Facebook reporting a stronger than expected performance in Q2, Zuckerberg is now a centibillionaire, joining Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates in the $100 billion club, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

2020 August 7, Jason Murdock, “Zuckerberg Becomes Centibillionaire after Trump Threatens TikTok Ban, Instagram Reels Launches”, in Newsweek:

An Ashkenazic Jewish surname from German.

Ցուկերբերգ

Ashkenazic Jewish surname of German origin


Filippi

Borrowed from Italian Filippi. Doublet of Philippi.


Caldwell

Caldwell (countable and uncountable, plural Caldwells)

From Old English cald (“cold”) + wielle (“well, spring”).

A habitational surname from Old English.


Floriano

Borrowed from Portuguese and Spanish Floriano.


Hitchcock

Hitchcock (countable and uncountable, plural Hitchcocks)

From Hitch + -cock as a medieval male diminutive suffix.

A surname transferred from the given name.


Menera

Borrowed from Catalan Menera, a habitational surname.


Aleksanyan

Borrowed from Armenian Ալեքսանյան (Alekʻsanyan).


Abrahamyan

Borrowed from Armenian Աբրահամյան (Abrahamyan).


Damaso

Borrowed from Portuguese and Spanish Dámaso.


Kader

Borrowed from Arabic قادر (qādir, “powerful”). This surname is mostly found in Bangladesh.


Sousa

Borrowed from Portuguese Sousa, from Old Galician-Portuguese Sousa.


Brill

* As an English surname, from Brill in Buckinghamshire, said to be from Proto-Brythonic *breɣ (“hill”) + Old English hyll (“hill”).
* As a Dutch and north German surname, from Middle Low German brul (“low wetland”). Compare the variant Bruehl.
* Also as a German surname, from the noun Brille (“eyeglasses”).
* As a Jewish surname, from Hebrew בן [script needed] (rabi, “son of..”) followed by a Yiddish personal name, likely acronymic in origin.


Gibbon

From Old French Giboin, from Frankish *Gebawin (literally “Gift-friend”).


Janes

* As a southern English surname, variant of Jane; compare Jayne.
* As a Slovene and Serbo-Croatian surname, from Janeš, variant of Janež, ultimately a derivative of Latin Johannes (English John). Also from the noun janež (“anise”). Compare Yanes.
* As a Czech surname, from Janeš, a pet form of the name Jan (and thus also related to Latin Johannes).

A surname originating as a patronymic derived from a medieval variant of John.


Benedek

Emily Benedek


Gorsuch

From the hamlet of Gorsuch in Lancashire.


Frankland

en-proper noun

Frankland (countable and uncountable, plural Franklands)

From Middle English Fronc-lond, from Old English Francland (“Land of the Franks, France”), equivalent to Frank + land. Cognate with Icelandic Frakkland (“France”).


Facundo

Borrowed from Spanish Facundo. This surname is mostly found in Mexico.


Floro

Borrowed either from Italian Floro or Spanish Floro.


Rota

en-proper noun

Rota (countable and uncountable, plural Rotas)

From Italian Rota, from Latin Rota, from Latin rota (“wheel”).


Pascual

Borrowed from Spanish Pascual. This surname is mostly found in the Philippines.


Brontë

From Ancient Greek βροντή (brontḗ, “thunder”), used as a rendering of Prunty, an Anglicization of the Irish Ó Proinntigh (“descendant of a person named Proinnteach (“Generous”)”).

der

descendant of a person named <i class="Latn mention" lang="ga">Proinnteach</i> (“Generous”)

An 85-year injustice has been rectified at Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey with the corrected spelling of one of the greatest of all literary names. Reader, it is finally Brontë, not Bronte. An amended memorial to Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë was unveiled on Thursday with added diaereses (two dots) that ensure people pronounce it with two syllables. As if it rhymed with Monty, not font. The memorial was installed in 1939 and, for whatever reason, came without the diaereses that the Brontës used.

2024 September 26, Mark Brown, “Brontë sisters finally get their dots as names corrected at Westminster Abbey”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-10-05:


Scudamore

From Old French escut d'amor (“shield of love”).


Schütz

* As a German and Jewish surname, variant of Schuetz. Found in several other countries such as the form Slovene Šuc.
* Also as a German surname, from Schutz in Vulkaneifel.
Compare Sic, Shutz.

Heinrich Schütz (18 October 1585 – 6 November 1672), a German composer and organist.


Ure

From Middle English Yore, Jor, from Old English Earp, corrupted from Ear + ƿ (abbreviation for ƿæter (“water”)); first element from Brythonic Isurā with loss of intervocalic s, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *isərós (“vigorous, quick”), from *eis(ə, related to Sanskrit इषिरम् (iṣiram, “fast, quick”). Compare the Gaulish river Isara.


Hause

From the German surname, variant of Haus.


Roscoe

From a place in Lancashire, from Old Norse rá (“roebuck”) + skógr (“forest”).


Blackstone

From Old English blac (“black”) + stone (“stone”).


Nikolayev

From Russian Никола́ев (Nikolájev), from Никола́й (Nikoláj, “Nicholas”). Compare Mykolaiv.

A male surname from Russian, feminine equivalent Nikolayeva.


Beard

Originally a nickname for someone with a beard.

A surname transferred from the nickname.


Yaghoubian

Borrowed from Armenian Յաղուբյան (Yaġubyan).


Yacoubian

Borrowed from Armenian Յակուբյան (Yakubyan).


Miley

Popularised as a female name by American pop singer Miley Ray Cyrus (nicknamed Miley from "smiley").


Amir

From Arabic أَمِير (ʔamīr, “commander, prince”). Doublet of amir, emir, admiral, and amira.


Golan

en-proper noun

Golan (countable and uncountable, plural Golans)


Mumm

* From the personal name Mummo, ultimately from a Germanic name corresponding to *mundō (“protection”) + *mōdaz (“courage”).
* As a Swabian/Alemannic German surname, from the verb mummen (“to mumble”).
Both senses are comparable to Mumme, a spelling variant.


Henman

A variant of Hinman, or an altered form of German Hennemann.


Netanyahu

Borrowed from Hebrew נְתַנְיָהוּ (n'tanyáhu).


Mottram

Habitational surname from the villages of Mottram in Longdendale and Mottram St Andrew, from the unattested Old English element *mōt (“meeting”) + either ærn (“house, hall”), rūm (“room, space”) or trēowum, dative plural form of trēow (“tree”).


Hepburn

# Placename: From Old English hēa, definite form of hēah (“high”) + byrġen (“tumulus”).
# The romanization system is named after its inventor, James Curtis Hepburn.


Strauss

Translingual: Straussia


Laing

en-proper noun

Laing (countable and uncountable, plural Laings)

The Philippine pronunciation is influenced by Tagalog laing.


Montano

From Romance; from Italian Montano and Spanish Montaño.

A surname from the Romance languages, Italian, or Spanish, equivalent to English Mountain.


Bodo

Bodo (surname)
Bodo language
Bodo people

* As a Hungarian suranme, Bodó, from the old name Bod or from a Slavic name meaning "to inspire" (see Buda).
* As a Polish and Slovak surname Boďo, from the old Slavic name Ostrobod, from Proto-Slavic *ostrъ (“sharp”) + *bosti (“to sting, stab”).
* As a German surname, from the noun Bodo (“messenger”). This is also found in parts of France and Italy.
* As a French surname, variant of Bodeau (from Old French boel (“gut, intestine”), from Late Latin botellus) and Thibodeau.


Eyre

Eyre (countable and uncountable, plural Eyres)


Santorum

From Italian. For most bearers, the surname is from Latin sanctorum (“of the saints”). For some individuals of Italian or Maltese ancestry, the name is related to the Italian Santorino (“from the island of Santorini”).

uder

On April 7, 2003, Senator Rick Santorum signaled his opposition to same-sex marriage in no uncertain terms.

2008, Paul Ryan Brewer, chapter 4, in Value War, Rowan & Littlefield, Inc., →ISBN, page 67:


Basheer

From Arabic بَشِير (bašīr, “bringer of good news”)


Bashir

From Arabic بَشِير (bašīr, “bringer of good news”).


Banks

en-proper noun

Banks (countable and uncountable, plural Bankses)

Sir John being asked if he offered to put another name in his stead, he believes he did, and that Mr. Banks said, it might stand in his own name; he likewise said, he believed the colonel did not know it was the Company's stock, he having never told him it was, as he remembers.

1811, William Cobbett, The Parliamentary History of England:

An English toponymic surname for someone who lives near a hill or bank of land.


Constantinescu

Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Constantinescu.


Dahl

From Danish, Norwegian and Swedish Dahl. Doublet of Dale and Dell.


Blair

en-proper noun

Blair (countable and uncountable, plural Blairs)

From Scottish Gaelic blàr (“field, plain”).


Lind

* As an English, North German, Dutch, and North Germanic surname, from lind (“lime tree”).
* As a South German and Jewish surname, from the adjective lind (“gentle”).
* As a Yiddish surname, variant of Linde.


Holm

* As an English, Scottish, German (by way of Low German holm), Scandinavian (Norway, Sweden, and Denmark) /North Germanic surname (from Old Norse holmr), from holm (“islet”), all from Proto-Germanic *hulmaz.
* Also as an English surname, from holm (“holly”). Compare Hollis.


Velasco

A surname from Spanish [in turn from Basque]


Button

A surname originating as an occupation for a maker or seller of buttons.


Navarro

A surname from Spanish [in turn from Basque].


Montoya

From Spanish Montoya, from Basque Montoia.


Bustamante

Habitational surname borrowed from Spanish Bustamante. This surname is mostly found in Mexico.


Linares

From Spanish Linares, from linares (“flax fields”). For places outside Spain, derived from Spanish cities or from Spanish nobles bearing the name in their primary titles. As a surname mostly found in Venezuela, variously derived from all these sources.


Hinojosa

Habitational surname borrowed from Spanish Hinojosa.


Vargas

Borrowed from Spanish Vargas. This surname is predominantly found in Mexico and Colombia.


Ochoa

Borrowed from Spanish Ochoa, from Basque otsoa, otxoa (“wolf”).


Fonseca

Borrowed from Spanish and Portuguese Fonseca.


Flores

From Spanish Flores, from flores (“flowers”).


Torres

From Romance Torres (Portuguese Torres and Spanish Torres); from torres ("towers"; Portuguese torres and Spanish torres); indicating someone who lived in or near a tower. From Latin turris.

A topographic surname from the Romance languages, equivalent to English Towers of Spanish and Portuguese origin.


Aguilar

Aguilar (countable and uncountable, plural Aguilars)

Borrowed from Spanish Aguilar. This surname is mostly found in Mexico.


Castro

Borrowed from Spanish Castro. The neighborhood is named after Californio politician José Castro (1808–1860).


Manson

en-proper noun

Manson (countable and uncountable, plural Mansons)

An Anglicised version of the North Germanic (Scandinavian) name Magnuson "son of Magnus" (Swedish Magnusson, Danish Magnussen, Norwegian Magnusen, Icelandic Magnússon), using + -son.


Villanueva

From Spanish Villanueva. Common surname in the Philippines and Mexico.


Castillo

A habitational surname from Spanish, from Spanish castillo (“castle”).

A surname from French, a rare variant of Castillon.


Ramos

From the Spanish and Portuguese surname, from ramo (“branch”).


Skeffington

Skeffington (countable and uncountable, plural Skeffingtons)

From the Old English personal name Sċeaft, a byname from sċeaft (“shaft”), + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).


Rochelle

French: Nouvelle-Rochelle

Habitational or topographic name from places in France, La Rochelle, from Old French rochelle diminutive form of roche (“rock”).


Langley

Langley (countable and uncountable, plural Langleys)

From Old English lang (“long”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). Equivalent to long + -ley (“lea”).


Brun

A surname from Norwegian, notably held by Viggo Brun.


Bruun

Borrowed from Danish Bruun, a variant of Brun, from the adjective brun (“brown”).


Matts

Patronymic surname from a hypocoristic form of Matthew.


Bai

From Chinese 白 (Bái). Doublet of Bach (Vietnamese surname).


Gupta

→ Hindi: गुप्ता (guptā)

Transliteration of Sanskrit गुप्त (gupta).


Thorsen

Borrowed both from Danish Thorsen and Norwegian Thorsen.


Christiansen

From Danish Christiansen or Norwegian Christiansen. Doublet of Christianson.


Dashwood

A variant of Ashwood, with fused French preposition de (“of”).

Little had Mrs. Dashwood or her daughters imagined when they first came into Devonshire, that so many engagements would arise to occupy their time as shortly presented themselves, or that they should have such frequent invitations and such constant visitors as to leave them little leisure for serious employment.

1811, Jane Austen, chapter 11, in Sense and Sensibility:


Deel

en-proper noun

Deel (countable and uncountable, plural Deels)

* As a north German surname, Borrowed from North German Deel.
* Also as a north German surname, variant of Diehl, Diel.
* As an English surname, variant of Deal, itself a variant of Dale and also named after Deal in Kent.


Madsen

Borrowed from Danish and Norwegian Madsen.


Henriksen

Borrowed from Danish Henriksen, Norwegian Henriksen.


Boll

* As a Danish and German surname, from Danish Bøll, German Böll.
* Also as a German surname, from the personal name Baldo (see Bold). Compare Boell.
* As an English surname, variant of Bull.
* Also as an English surname, from the noun bowl. Compare Bowler.
* As a Scottish surname, variant of Boyle.

A surname from the Germanic languages.
A surname from German.

A surname from the Germanic languages.
A surname from Danish.


Dunn

Dunn (countable and uncountable, plural Dunns)

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Duinn (“descendant of Donn”), a byname from donn (“brown, brown-haired”).


Bur

Three possible origins:
* Borrowed from French Bur, probably a short form of an ancient Germanic personal name.
* Borrowed from Alemannic German Bur (“peasant, farmer”) and Low German Bur (“peasant, farmer”).
* Borrowed from Slovak Búr, a surname of unexplained origin.


Knapp

* As a German surname, from the noun Knabe (“boy, young unmarried man”). This is also found as the variant Knap.
* As an English surname related to the above, from the noun knave, similar to Nave.
* Also as an English surname, from Middle English knappe (“hillock”), from Old English cnæpp (“summit”), probably from the same source as Icelandic hnappur (“button”).
* As a Jewish surname, from the German adjective knapp (“scarce, tight”).


Jackett

From a medieval diminutive of the given name Jack.


Kaul

Nitasha Kaul, b. 1976


Ee

en-proper noun

Ee (countable and uncountable, plural Ees)


Auer

Auer (countable and uncountable, plural Auers)


Messa

Borrowed from Southern Italian and Spanish Messa.


Woodley

Woodley (countable and uncountable, plural Woodleys)

From Old English wudu (“wood”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). Equivalent to wood + -ley (“lea”).


Berglund

Borrowed from Swedish Berglund, an ornamental surname composed of the elements berg (“mountain”) and lund (“grove”).


Sundberg

Borrowed from Swedish Sundberg, from sund (“sound, strait”) + berg (“mountain”).


Nyberg

Borrowed from Swedish Nyberg, an ornamental surname composed of the elements ny (“new”) and berg (“mountain”).


Eklund

Borrowed from Swedish Eklund, an ornamental surname composed of the elements ek (“oak”) and lund (“grove”).


Weibull

Named after Swedish mathematician Waloddi Weibull, who described it in detail in 1951, though it was already known.


Koh

Borrowed from Hokkien 許／许 (Khó͘), Hokkien 高 (Ko), Hokkien 古 (Kó͘), Hokkien 辜 (Ko͘), Korean 고(高) (Go), etc.


Sandberg

Two main origins:
* Borrowed from German Sandberg, a habitational surname from a village in Bavaria.
* Borrowed from Norwegian and Swedish Sandberg, an ornamental surname composed of the elements sand (“sand”) and berg (“mountain”).


Izumi

Borrowed from Japanese 泉 (izumi, “spring; fountain”).


Twain

English surname meaning "divided in two," from the numeral/adjective twain.


Craigo

Craigo (countable and uncountable, plural Craigos)

From Scottish Gaelic creagach (“rocky place”), from creag (“steep rock”).

der

A habitational surname from Scottish Gaelic.


Katsura

Borrowed from Japanese 桂 (Katsura) or かつら (Katsura).


Shion

* (given name): Transliteration of Japanese しおん.


Zajac

From a Slavic language, e.g. Polish Zając, from zając (“hare”), or Slovak, Sorbian, and Serbo-Croatian zajac ("hare").


Takaki

Borrowed from Japanese 高木 (Takaki) or たかき (Takaki).


Taira

Borrowed from Japanese 平 (Taira) or Japanese 平良 (Taira).


Marley

From several different places in England, from Old English mære (“boundary”) or myrig (“pleasant”) or mearþ (“marten”) + lēah (“woodland clearing”). In the first case, equivalent to mere (“boundary”) + -ley (“lea”).

An English habitational surname from Old English.

A surname from Irish, an alternate anglicization of Ó Murghaile (Morley).


Capito

Two main origins:
* Borrowed from Italian Capito or Capitò, a reduced form of the personal name Agapito.
* Borrowed from German Capito, a Latinized form of the surnames Haupt or Kopf.


Lanius

Borrowed from Latin lanius (“butcher”), a Latinized form of Dutch vleeshouwer.


Schmid

South German surname, variant of Schmidt.


Klein

A surname from German, equivalent to English Small.


Rollo

en-proper noun

Rollo (countable and uncountable, plural Rollos)

Latinization of the Old French equivalent of the English Rolf.

A surname transferred from the given name.


Lipari

Lipari (countable and uncountable, plural Liparis)

(countable) A habitational surname from Italian.


Cormack

From the Old Irish given name Cormac.
The town in Newfoundland is named after explorer and entrepreneur William Epps Cormack (1796 - 1868).


Crusoe

Perhaps from French Crusiaux, a topographic surname from a diminutive of creux (“hollow”), or alternatively a variant of Croiseau, a habitational surname.

Robinson Crusoe, the main character in the novel of the same name by Daniel Defoe.

A surname from French, famously held by:


Cosby

Cosby (countable and uncountable, plural Cosbys)

From the Old English personal name Cossa + Old Norse býr (“farm; settlement”).


Creighton

Creighton (countable and uncountable, plural Creightons)


Cullen

Cullen (countable and uncountable, plural Cullens)


Cavendish

Cavendish (countable and uncountable, plural Cavendishes)

* (English village): Enclosure of a man named Cāfna + Old English edisc; recorded as Kauanadisc in 1086 (DB).
* (in Vermont): Likely named after William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire.
* (banana): Named after William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire.


Bond

en-proper noun

Bond (countable and uncountable, plural Bonds)

An occupational surname, from bond ("peasant," "farmer").


Crosby

From Old Norse kross (“cross”) + býr (“settlement”).

A northern English and Scottish habitational surname from Old Norse.

A surname from Irish, a variant of Crosbie.


Herkimer

(surname): Possibly a corruption of Herchheimer.


Wee

Wee (countable and uncountable, plural Wees)


Loft

Two main origins:
* From Middle English lofte (“loft, attic”), possibly a surname given to a household servant who worked in an upper chamber; see the noun loft.
* Borrowed from Danish Loft, a habitational surname.


Bates

A patronymic surname that is derived from Batte, a medieval form of the male given name Bartholomew + -s (denoting "son of") hence meaning "son of Bartholomew".


Priestley

Priestley (countable and uncountable, plural Priestleys)

Habitational surname from aby of various minor places in North Yorkshire, from Old English prēost (“priest”) + lēah (“wood clearing, meadow, leigh”). Equivalent to priest + -ley (“lea”).


Emmott

From a Middle English diminutive of the female given name Emma.


Ide

From the medieval male (and less often female) given name Ida.


Kitchener

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Kitchener.wav

A surname originating as an occupation for someone who worked in a kitchen.


Athelstan

An Anglo-Saxon male given name derived from Old English æþele (“noble”) and stān (“stone”), meaning "Gem". Old English variants are Æþelstān and Æðelstān. In modern English it is also found as Æthelstan, Athelstane, Addleston, Athelston, Athelstone and Ethelstone, usually surnames or place names. It is akin to the Dutch noun edelsteen and German noun and surname Edelstein and the Icelandic male given name Aðalsteinn.


Bunn

Bunn (countable and uncountable, plural Bunns)

* As an English surname, variant of Bone.
* As a German surname, perhaps a variant of Bunde.


Trafford

Trafford (countable and uncountable, plural Traffords)

From Old English træppe (“(fish)-trap”) + ford.

A habitational surname from Old English.


Stockport

Stockport (countable and uncountable, plural Stockports)

From Old English stoc (“house, dwelling; place”) + port (“port; market town”).


Oldham

en-proper noun

Oldham (countable and uncountable, plural Oldhams)

Domesday Book
Metropolitan Borough of Oldham
Oldham (disambiguation)#Other meanings

Recorded as Aldehulme in the Domesday Book, the English toponym is named with Old English eald (“old”) + Old Norse holmr (“holm, islet”).


Salford

Salford (countable and uncountable, plural Salfords)

From Old English sealh (“willow, sallow”) + ford (“ford”).

City of Salford
Salford (disambiguation)


Bury

Bury (countable and uncountable, plural Burys)

The place name means "fort," from Old English burg. Doublet of borough, Brough, and burgh.

Bury
Bury (surname)
Bury, Greater Manchester


Ma

A common surname from Chinese of East Asian derivation.


Kimball

Kimball (countable and uncountable, plural Kimballs)

From Old Welsh Cynbel, from cyn (“chief”) + bel (“war”). Possibly also from Old English Cynebeald.


Layton

Layton (countable and uncountable, plural Laytons)

* (perseonal names): Derived from various place names in England.


Stoddard

A surname originating as an occupation for a standard bearer.


Manne

Various origins:
* Borrowed from Telugu మన్నె (manne); this surname is mostly found in Telangana.
* Variant of the Dutch surname Mann.
* Borrowed from French Manne, a metonymic occupational surname for a maker of a kind of basket with two handles.
* Borrowed from Yiddish מֹרְדְּכַי (Manēh).


Pelagio

Borrowed from Portuguese and Spanish Pelágio.


Ramm

* As a German and English surname, from ram (“male sheep”).
* As a Jewish surname, spelling variant of Ram, from Hebrew רָם.


Bic

* From French Bic
* From Romanian Bîc
* From Czech Bič and Slovak Bič

A surname
A surname from Czech or Slovak

A surname from the Slavic languages, variant of Bich


Maroun

Borrowed from Arabic مارون (mārūn), the name of a popular saint in Lebanon.


Adie

The journalist Kate Adie was born in 1945.

A surname transferred from the given name derived from Adam.


Bougie

Bougie (countable and uncountable, plural Bougies)


Bull

A surname transferred from the nickname derived from the name of the animal.


Sixsmith

'Mr Grimaldi,' fills in Smoke, 'what I believe Fay has too much tact to spit out and say is this: the Rey woman might be imagining we rubbed out Dr Sixsmith.'

2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:

A surname originating as an occupation for a person who made sickles.


Cooney

Cooney (countable and uncountable, plural Cooneys)

Anglicized form of Irish Ó Cuana (“descendant of Cuana”), a personal name either derived from cú (“hound”) or cuanna (“elegant, comely”).


Olave

Borrowed from Spanish Olave, a Castilianized form of Basque Olabe.


Kivi

Borrowed from Estonian and Finnish Kivi.


Eck

A surname from German. — famously held by:

Johann Eck (German scholastic theologian, 1486–1543)


Romandia

After defendant was arrested, the shirt that he wore on the night of July 9th was discovered to have three small spots of blood on the shoulder. An analysis of the evidence as stated above shows that the testimony of Romandia is very strongly and quite convincingly corroborated by the defendant himself. He admits the continuous three-day association with Romandia; admits their common design to commit the serious crime of burglary or robbery; ...

1936, Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of the territory of Arizona:

In contrast, respondents' expert testified that Kannappan's treatment of Romandia during the entire delivery had met all standards of care.

2002, Reports of Cases Determined in the Courts of Appeal of the State of California:

It felt heavy and recalled feeling all the fabrics, they felt soft and rich, like thick butter and honey rubbed together, smooth but uneven as the silk had been woven. She replayed the words spoken by all the women attending, “The silk is from Spain.” A slender girl said. “Yes, from grand ladies” said another. “It was from my great-grandmother's wedding gown.” Helena added, “The seed pearls on the bodice were sown by three generations of Romandia women.”

2011, Raul Angulo Coronel, The Cortez Coins: The Moctezuma Treasure, BookBaby, →ISBN:


Selim

Borrowed from Arabic سليم (salīm). This surname is mostly found in Egypt.


Hamza

From Arabic حَمْزَة (ḥamza, literally “lion”), from the Arabic root ح م ز (ḥ-m-z).


Tay

en-proper noun

Tay (countable and uncountable, plural Tays)

Borrowed from Hokkien 鄭／郑 (tēⁿ), Teochew 鄭／郑 (dên7), or a variant of the English surname Tee.


Isaksen

Borrowed from Danish and Norwegian Isaksen.


Gregersen

Borrowed from Danish and Norwegian Gregersen.


Sivertsen

Borrowed from Danish and Norwegian Sivertsen.


Gundersen

Borrowed from Danish and Norwegian Gundersen.


Christoffersen

Borrowed from Danish and Norwegian Christoffersen.


Ellingsen

Borrowed from Norwegian Ellingsen, from Elling + -sen (son).


Erdoğan

Unadapted borrowing from Turkish Erdoğan.

ubor

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (1954–), the current President of Turkey.


Soyer

Two main origins:
* Borrowed from Turkish Soyer.
* Borrowed from French Soyer.


Hayat

Borrowed from Arabic حَيَاة (ḥayāh). This surname is mostly found in Pakistan.


Akel

Borrowed from Turkish Akel and Arabic عَقْل (ʕaql, “wisdom, reason”).


Tamay

Borrowed from Spanish Tamay. This surname is mostly found in Mexico.


Martins

A surname transferred from the given name derived from the given name Martin.


Pond

* As an English surname, from both senses of the noun pound.
* As a German and north/Low German surname, Americanized from Pfund and Pund respectively, both related to the above.

"How do you know?" asked Mr Pond rather snappishly and in unusual irritation.

1929, G. K. Chesterton, The Poet and the Lunatics:


Kenan

* Borrowed from Hebrew קֵינָן (qēnå̄n).
* Alternatively, possibly a variant of Keenan, from Irish Cianán, a diminutive of Cian.


Mattis

Patronymic surname from a pet form of the personal name Matthew.

A surname transferred from the given name.


Mathiesen

Borrowed from Danish and Norwegian Mathiesen.


Ibsen

Borrowed from Danish and Norwegian Ibsen.


O'Leary

From Irish Ó Laoghaire.
The town in Prince Edward Island is named after early settler Michael O'Leary.


Phillis

From Philip + genitive (mainly patronymic) suffix -s.


Angelino

Borrowed from Italian, Portuguese and Spanish Angelino.


Konda

Various origins:
* Topographic surname borrowed from Telugu కొండ (koṇḍa, “hill, hillock”).
* Borrowed from Japanese 近田 (Konda).
* Borrowed from Slovene Konda, a diminutive of the personal name Konrad.


Swisher

en-proper noun

Swisher (countable and uncountable, plural Swishers)


Kuhn

* As a German surname, from Kuhn. Compare Kühn, Kuehn.
* As a Jewish surname, a variant of Cohen, Kohn.


Brandt

German and Alemannic German surname for someone who lived in an area cleared by fire, from Brandt. Compare Brand.


Schultz

Schultz (countable and uncountable, plural Schultzes)

From German Schultz, an occupational surname derived from Schultheiß (“a mayor in medieval Germany”).

A surname from German [in turn originating as an occupation].


Waldo

English surname, from the obsolete English given name Waltheof, from Old English weald (“power”) + þēof (“thief”), as in "one who snatched victory from battle." Comparable to, or ultimately Anglicized from, the Old Norse equivalent Valthiófr, from vald + *ᚦᛖᚢᛒᚨᛉ (*þeubaʀ). Compare Walthall, Waldie.


Mayer

* As an English surname, variant of Mear, from the noun mere (both senses).
* Also as an English surname, from Middle English mire, a borrowing from archaic French mire (“physician”). Compare Myer.
* Also as an English name, from the noun mayor. Compare Mayor, Mair.
* As a German and Dutch surname, variant of Meyer, Myers.
* Also as a Dutch surname, variant of Maijer, from the noun maaier (“mower, reaper”).
* As a French Canadian surname, variant of Maille, itself of Breton origin, from the adjective maget (“nourished”), from Proto-Celtic *maketi (“to raise”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂ḱ- (“long, to raise”).


Schulz

Common German and Jewish surname, from the archaic Schulze (“mayor, headman”), similar to Schultheiß. Compare Schultz, and the common Slavic form Sulc, Szulc.


Elgin

en-proper noun

Elgin (countable and uncountable, plural Elgins)

US, Houston avenue; other places outside Texas

The village in New Brunswick is probably named in honour of colonial administrator James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin (1811 - 1863). The civil parish is named after the village.


Beechtree

en-proper-noun

Beechtree (countable and uncountable, plural Beechtrees)


Kano

Borrowed from Japanese 狩野 (Kano) or Japanese 加納 (Kanō).


Tur

Two main origins:
* Borrowed from Catalan Tur, probably a topographic surname from tur (“tufa, porous limestone”).
* Borrowed from Polish Tur, from the nickname tur (“aurochs”).


Howells

From the given name Howell + patronymic suffix -s.


Pritchard

Anglicised from Welsh patronymic prefix ap + Richard.


Owens

From the given name Owen + the patronymic suffix -s.


Nicholls

From a medieval vernacular form of the given name Nicholas + the patronymic suffix -s.


O'Neill

Anglicisation of an Irish surname meaning "descendant of Niall".


Goodwin

From Old English gōd (“good”) + wine (“friend”).

A surname transferred from the given name derived from the given name.


Watkins

From a medieval diminutive of the given name Walter + the patronymic suffix -s.


Pearce

From Piers, the medieval vernacular form of Peter.


Howell

en-proper noun

Howell (countable and uncountable, plural Howells)

From Welsh Hywel. Doublet of Huell and Powell.

(countable) A surname transferred from the given name derived from the given name.


Pearson

Pearson (countable and uncountable, plural Pearsons)

A patronymic surname transferred from the given name.


Nichols

Nichols (countable and uncountable, plural Nicholses)

From Nichol, medieval vernacular form of the given name Nicholas + the patronymic suffix -s.


O'Connor

Anglicisation of Irish Ó Conchúir, meaning "descendant of Conor".


O'Brien

Anglicisation of the Irish surname Ó Briain, meaning “descendant of Brian”.

Landlady: O'Brien? He don't live here any more. Not lived here for months. I made him sling his hook. Never paid his lodgings.

2007 March 6, Julie Rutterford, Life on Mars, Season 2, Episode 3:


Hutchinson

Hutchinson (countable and uncountable, plural Hutchinsons)

From a medieval diminutive of the given name Hugh + -son.


Neill

Variant spelling of Neil, anglicised form of Goidelic/Irish Niall.

A surname from Irish or transferred from the given name, variant of Neil.


Stephens

From the given name Stephen + the patronymic suffix -s.


Nicholson

From Nicholas + -son. Doublet of Nielsen.


Playfair

Playfair (countable and uncountable, plural Playfairs)

* (craters): The craters are Named after Scottish mathematician, scientist and C of S minister John Playfair
* (cipher): The cipher is Named after British Lord, baron, politician and scientist Lyon Playfair, who popularized the cipher.


Lynch

en-proper noun

Lynch (countable and uncountable, plural Lynchs or Lynches)

* As an Irish surname, from Ó Loingsigh (“descendant of Loingseach”), from long (“ship”).
* Also as an Irish surname of Anglo-Norman origin, from De Línse, Gaelicized from Norman/French de Lench, from Lench in Worchestershire, from Old English hlinc (“hill”).


Kendrick

From Middle English Cenric, Kendrich, of several origins:
* From Old English Cyneric, from cyne- (“royal”) + ric (“power”),
* Borrowed from Middle Welsh Cynwrig (“greatest champion”), from cynt (“before, first”) + gwr (“man”) + -ig
* Borrowed from Irish Mac Ionnrachtaigh via Enright, in which case also a doublet of Hanratty


Willson

From Will (“short form of the given name William”) + -son. A less common variant of Wilson.

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short form of the given name <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">William</i>


Thomason

From Thomas + -son. Literally, “son of Thomas”.


Kirkwood

en-proper noun

Kirkwood (countable and uncountable, plural Kirkwoods)

From Old English ċiriċe (“church”) + wudu (“wood”).

A habitational surname from Old English.


Nickle

One of the variant spellings of Nichol, a Middle English vernacular form of the given name Nicholas.


Watkin

From Wat, medieval contraction of the given name Walter + -kin.


Nicholds

One of the variant spellings of Nichols, from Nichol, a Middle English vernacular form of the given name Nicholas + the suffix -s.


Barrymore

I don’t think Barrymore intended any harm, quite the opposite, and the vice president was magnanimous, taking the comment in stride and with good cheer. The studio audience applauded.

2024 May 1, Charles M. Blow, “Kamala Harris Isn’t Americans’ ‘Momala.’ She’s Our Vice President.”, in The New York Times:


Nickless

Variant spelling of the given name Nicholas.


Nickisson

From a diminutive of the given name Nicholas + -son.


Nickson

From Nick, diminutive of the given name Nicholas + -son.


Nixson

Rare spelling variant of Nickson, from Nick, diminutive of the given name Nicholas + -son.


Nicks

From a diminutive of the given name Nicholas + the patronymic suffix -s.


Leeson

From a Middle English diminutive of the given name Lettice + -son.


Kitson

Kit (“diminutive of the given name Christopher”) + -son.


Rawlinson

From a Middle English diminutive of the given name Ralph + -son.


Waters

From the given name Walter + the patronymic suffix -s.


Pattinson

From a Middle English diminutive of the given name Patrick + -son.


Jepson

From a Middle English diminutive of the given name Jeffrey + -son.


Kirkland

Kirkland (countable and uncountable, plural Kirklands)


Rawson

From a Middle English variant of the given name Ralph + -son.


Parkinson

Parkinson (countable and uncountable, plural Parkinsons)

→ Russian: Паркинсо́н (Parkinsón)

From a Middle English diminutive of the given name Peter + -son.


Jewson

From a Middle English diminutive of the given name Julian + -son.

A surname originating as a patronymic or as a matronymic.


Zhang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 張／张 (Zhāng). Doublet of Truong.

Zhang Yitang, a Chinese mathematician

Zhang Xueliang, whose name was also rendered Chang Hsueh-liang, was born in 1901 in Manchuria. His father, Zhang Zuolin, a leading warlord known as "the Old Marshal," was assassinated in 1928 by the Japanese. "The Young Marshal" emerged in his place as one of the most powerful military figures in China.

2001 October 19, Nicholas Kristof, “Zhang Xueliang, 100, Dies; Warlord and Hero of China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2009-10-24, World:


Zhang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 章 (Zhāng).


Duran

Duran (countable and uncountable, plural Durans)

Borrowed from Spanish Durán. This surname is predominantly found in Mexico.


Collyns

A rare spelling variant of Collins, from the given name Colin.


Collings

From Colling, diminutive of Cole and Coll, + patronymic suffix -s.


Colling

From medieval diminutives of the given names Cole and Coll.


Collet

From a medieval diminutive of Coll, from the given name Nicholas.


Collis

Variant of Collins, from the given name Colin.


Cowling

Cowling (countable and uncountable, plural Cowlings)

Variant of Colling, a personal name which denoted an early owner of the properties.


Swinburne

Swinburne (countable and uncountable, plural Swinburnes)

Habitational surname from a minor place in the parish of Chollerton, Northumberland, from Old English swīn (“pig, swine”) + burna (“stream, brook”).


Hukins

From a medieval diminutive of the given name Hugh + patronymic suffix -s.


Hutcheon

From a medieval diminutive of the given name Hugh.


Hutcherson

From a medieval diminutive of the given name Hugh + -son.


Howkins

From a medieval diminutive of the given name Hugh + the patronymic suffix -s.


Collard

From a medieval pejorative form of Coll, from the given name Nicholas.


Beckham

From Old English personal name Becca + hām (“homestead”).


Botham

Between 1972 and 1977 Somerset were captained by the inspirational and combative Brian Close, whose influence on Ian Botham was considerable.

2011, Les Scott, Bats, Balls & Bails: The Essential Cricket Book:


Ellison

Ellison (countable and uncountable, plural Ellisons)


Colle

Rare spelling variant of Coll, from Nicholas.


Shearer

An English surname originating as an occupation for a shearer.


Boycott

From Middle English Boicote, probably from Old English Bōia cot (“Bōia's cottage”).
The first element was a common Germanic name of obscure meaning, with parallels in Old Norse and Franconian dialects. Some proposed connections include bugan (“bent”), buan (“live”), or the root of modern bully.


Agnew

Agnew (countable and uncountable, plural Agnews)

Two possible origins:
* Scottish habitational surname of Norman origin, from the village of Agneaux, in Normandy.
* Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Gnímh (“descendant of Gníomh”), a byname from gníomh (“action, deed, act”).


Gough

Gough (countable and uncountable, plural Goughs)

* As a Welsh surname, from coch (“red”).
* As an Irish surname, reduced from McGough.


Hutchins

Hutchins (countable and uncountable, plural Hutchinses)


Coles

Coles (countable and uncountable, plural Coleses)

en:Coles (given name)
en:Coles (surname)


Amis

From Old French Amis, a given name and nickname, from Latin amīcus (“friend”).


Hulin

* As an English surname, from a medieval diminutive of the given name Hugh. Also as a French variant of Hue, itself related to Hugh.
* Also as a French surname, diminutive of Hudelin, from the personal name Hude (see Houde).


Gates

en-prop

Gates (countable and uncountable, plural Gateses)

From gate. A topographic name for someone who lived by the gates of a medieval walled town.


Berry

Variant of Bury and (in dialects with Mary-marry-merry merger) Barry. The given name is also a pet form of names beginning with Ber-.


Petre

From a medieval spelling variant of Peter.


Pughe

Less common spelling of Pugh, from Welsh ap + Huw.


Huggett

From a Middle English diminutive of Hugh.


Hewlett

en-proper noun

Hewlett (countable and uncountable, plural Hewletts)


Huitson

From a Middle English diminutive of Hugh + -son.


Hulance

From a Middle English diminutive form of Hugh + patronymic suffix -s.


Huws

From Hugh + -s.
* (surname): From Hugh + patronymic suffix -s.


Huddy

Huddy (countable and uncountable, plural Huddys)

Two main origins:
* A pet form of the medieval personal name Hudde.
* Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó hUada (“descendant of Uada”), a personal name of uncertain origin.


Howey

From a Middle English diminutive form of Hugh.


Hudd

From a Middle English given name derived from Hugh and probably merged with an Old English given name Hūda.


Heron

* As an English and French surname, from heron.
* As an English surname, from Harome in Yorkshire, from Old English harum, dative plural of hær (“stone”)
* As an Irish surname, from O’Heron, from Ó huidhrín, "descendant of Uidhrín," from odhar (“swarthy”).
* As an Irish surname, from Ó hearáin; see Haren.
* As an Irish surname, from Mac Giolla Chiaráin, "son of the servant of Ciarán; see Kieran.


Daly

Daly (countable and uncountable, plural Dalys)

(surname): Anglicisation of the Irish surname Ó Dálaigh, from dálach (“frequenting meetings”). Compare dáil.


Apgar

A Dutch or North-German surname transferred from the given name


Willment

From a medieval diminutive form of the given name William.


Willott

From a medieval diminutive form of the given name Will.


Gilham

From a medieval variant of the given name William.


Gillatt

From a medieval diminutive of the given name Gill.


Wilken

Variant of Wilkin, from a Middle English pet form of William.


Wilkens

Variant of Wilkin, from a Middle English pet form of William + patronymic suffix -s.


Willetts

From a medieval diminutive form of the given name Will + patronymic suffix -s.


Willmott

From a diminutive form of the personal name William.


Willet

Variant of Willett.
From a medieval diminutive form of the given name Will.


Wilcock

Will + cock (“a medieval diminutive suffix”)


Willett

From Will + -et.
From a medieval diminutive form of the given name Will, from William.


Wilke

Variant of Wilk, a back-formation from Wilkin.


Willets

Willets (countable and uncountable, plural Willetses)


Wilks

From Wilk, a back-formation from Wilkin + the patronymic suffix -s.


Willems

* (English): From a medieval variant of William + the patronymic suffix -s.
* (Dutch): From Dutch Willems

A surname from English, variant of Williams

A surname from Dutch, equivalent to English Williams


Gillett

From Gill + -et.
From a medieval diminutive of the given name Gill.

Guillot

equivalent surnames, from forms of William


Wilkes

Wilkes (countable and uncountable, plural Wilkes or Wilkeses)


Wilcox

From Wilcock + -s (“the patronymic suffix”).


Wilkie

Wilkie (countable and uncountable, plural Wilkies)

From a Scottish diminutive of Wilk, a back-formation from Wilkin.

(countable) A surname originating as a patronymic.


Wilmot

Wilmot (countable and uncountable, plural Wilmots)

From a medieval diminutive form of the given name William.


Wilk

* (Polish surname): From Polish Wilk, from Polish wilk (“wolf”),
* (English surname): A back-formation from Wilkin, from a medieval diminutive of the given name Will.

An English surname originating as a patronymic.


Clancy

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Mac Fhlannchaidh (“descendant of a person named Red Warrior”), from flann (“blood-red”).


Unwin

Patronymic surname, from the Old English personal name Hunwine, composed of the elements hun (“bear cub”) + wine (“friend”).


Hancocks

From Hancock + the patronymic suffix -s.


Hance

From Hann + the patronymic suffix -s. In Scotland, a contraction of Angus.


Jenks

From a back-formation of Jenkin + the patronymic suffix -s.


Jeynes

From a medieval variant of John + the patronymic suffix -s.


Jenns

From the medieval male given name Jan, variant of John, + the patronymic suffix -s.


Johncock

From John + cock as a medieval diminutive suffix.


Jennett

From Middle English [Term?], a diminutive of the male given name Jan, variant of John.


Jenning

A rare surname originating as a patronymic.


Janson

From the medieval male given name Jan + -son.


Jaynes

A surname originating as a patronymic derived from a medieval variant of John.


Hankinson

en-proper noun

Hankinson (countable and uncountable, plural Hankinsons)


Ions

From a Northumberland variant of John + the patronymic suffix -s.


Hanks

Hanks (countable and uncountable, plural Hankses)

From Hank + -s.
* (surname): From Hank + the patronymic suffix -s.
* (plural): From Hank + the pluralization suffix -s.


Jennens

From Middle English [Term?], a diminutive of the male given name Jan, variant of John + patronymic suffix -s.


Hanson

Hanson (countable and uncountable, plural Hansons)


Hancock

Hancock (countable and uncountable, plural Hancocks)

From Hann + cock (a medieval diminutive suffix).


Hann

From a Middle English given name derived from Johan, variant of John, or less often from Henry or Randolph.


Dabb

From a medieval diminutive form of the given name Robert.


Nobbs

From a medieval diminutive form of the given name Robert + the patronymic suffix -s.


Dopson

From a medieval diminutive form of the given name Robert + -son.


Dabinett

From a medieval short form of the given name Robert + two diminutive suffixes.


Roblett

From Rob, a short form of Robert + medieval diminutive suffix.


Hoblyn

From a medieval diminutive form of Hob, from the given name Robert.


Probin

Anglicised from Welsh ap + the given name Robin.


Hob

From a medieval diminutive form of the given name Robin, and separately as a French diminutive of Robert.


Dobbie

From Dobb (“a medieval diminutive form of the given name Robert”) + -ie; thus archaically equivalent to Bobby. Cognate with English Dobbin.

af

a medieval diminutive form of the given name <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">Robert</i>


Hobbins

From a medieval double diminutive form of the given name Robert + the patronymic suffix -s.


Robarts

From Robert + patronymic suffix -s. Rare variant of Roberts.


Hobb

From Middle English Hobb.
From a medieval diminutive form of the given name Robert.


Hobbs

en-proper noun

Hobbs (countable and uncountable, plural Hobbses)


Dobbin

From Dobb (“a medieval short form of the given name Robert”) + -en; thus archaically equivalent to Bobby. Cognate with English Dobbie.

af

a medieval short form of the given name <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">Robert</i>


Robbins

An English surname originating as a patronymic, from Robin + -s.

A surname from Irish [in turn originating as a patronymic], an adopted anglicization of Mac Roibín (“son of Robin”) (Cribbin).


Robb

From Middle English Robb.
From a medieval diminutive form of the given name Robert.


Robins

A surname originating as a patronymic derived from Robin.


Hobbes

Masters and men, according to Mr. Thornton, fatally confront each other in something like Hobbes’s misanthropically imagined state of nature, with nothing but force, or the fear of force in the background […]

1871, “Economic Fallacies and Labour Utopias”, in The Quarterly Review, volume 131, number 261, page 244:

The ideological gap between figures like Boehner and antagonists like Ted Cruz is not completely nonexistent; a world in which Boehner had unfettered power would have a radically smaller government, while a Cruz-topia would look more like Hobbes’s state of nature.

2015 October 9, Jonathan Chait, “Why Republicans Need Paul Ryan As House Speaker”, in New York:

[…] Wengrow and Graeber argue that the life of hunter-gatherers before widespread farming was nothing like “the drab abstractions of evolutionary theory,” which hold that early humans lived in small bands in which they acted almost entirely on instinct, either brutish (as in Hobbes) or egalitarian and innocent (as in Rousseau).

2022 July 11, Virginia Hefferman, “Humans Have Always Been Wrong About Humans”, in Wired:

Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679), English philosopher.


Robeson

From Middle English; equivalent to Rob + -son.

A surname transferred from the given name.


Dobbs

en-proper noun

Dobbs (countable and uncountable, plural Dobbses)


Fenn

* As an English topographic surname, from the noun fen.
* As a south German surname, from Fenn (“bog, swamp”), related to the above. Compare Fehn.
* As a Chinese surname, from 馮／冯, compare Feng.


Dickings

From a medieval diminutive of Dick + the patronymic suffix -s.


Hitchon

From a medieval diminutive form of Hitch.


Hichens

From a medieval diminutive form of Hitch + the patronymic suffix -s.


Icke

Variant of Hick, a medieval diminutive of Richard.


Riches

From Rich, a diminutive of Richard + the patronymic suffix -s.


Hitch

From a medieval diminutive of the male give name Richard.


Diggle

(surname): From a medieval diminutive of Dick.
: (place name): From Old English degle, ("valley").


Rickards

From Rickard, a medieval variant of Richard + the patronymic suffix -s.


Hickson

Hickson (countable and uncountable, plural Hicksons)


Ricketts

From Rickett, a medieval diminutive of Richard + the patronymic suffix -s.


Hickling

Hickling (countable and uncountable, plural Hicklings)

From the Old English personal name Hicel + -ing (“belonging to”).


Abernethy

Abernethy (surname)
Abernethy, Perth and Kinross

The first part of the name, Aber, is thought to be a Pictish word meaning "confluence," from Proto-Brythonic *aber + the name Nethy, a river in Scotland.


Drayton

Drayton (countable and uncountable, plural Draytons)

From Middle English Drayton, from Old English Drægtūn (literally “town where logs are dragged”), from draġan (“to draw, drag”) + tūn (“enclosure, town”). Alternatively from Proto-Brythonic *treβ (“town, settlement”) + Old English tūn.


Townsend

en-proper noun

Townsend (countable and uncountable, plural Townsends)

From town + -s- + end. From Middle English toun (“hamlet, village”) + ende (“end”).


Daffey

A surname from Welsh, derived from the Welsh equivalent of David.


Davitt

Anglicised from an Irish equivalent of David.


McKevitt

Variant of McDevitt, with lenited personal name.


Dawkin

From a Middle English short form of David + -kin.


Dawkes

From a back-formation of Dawkin (“a Middle English diminutive of David”) + -s (“patronymic suffix”).

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a Middle English diminutive of <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">David</i>


McDade

Anglicised form of Irish Mac Daibhéid, a surname meaning "son of David".


Deyes

Variant of Day. Middle English Day (diminutive of David) + -s (patronymic suffix).


Dawes

From Dawe (“diminutive of David”) + -s (“patronymic suffix”).

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diminutive of <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">David</i>


Daws

From Daw (“diminutive of David”) + -s (“patronymic suffix”).


Dowson

From a Dow as a diminutive of David + -son.


McDevitt

Anglicized form of Irish Mac Daibhéid (“son of David”).


Penry

Anglicised from Welsh ap + Hendry (“son of Henry”).


Deason

From a Day, a diminutive of David, or as a given name from Old English [Term?] + -son.


Dayes

From a Day, a diminutive of David, or as a given name from Old English [Term?] + -s (“patronymic suffix”).


Taaffe

Irish surname usually derived from Welsh Dafydd (“David”). However, it has been suggested that the surname actually derives from Welsh Taf (“a river of Wales”).

A surname from Irish, equivalent to English David

A surname
A habitational surname from Welsh


Davys

A rare spelling variant of Davis, "son of David".


Daw

* As an English surname, from a Middle English short form of David. Also a nickname from the (jack)daw. Compare Davey, Dakin.
* Also as an English surname, from a rhyming pet form of Raw, a name related to Rauf; compare Ralph, Rawe, Rawson, Dawkins, Dawson.
* As a Burmese surname, from ဒေါ် (dau, “madam”).
* As an Arabic surname, from ضوء (“light”).
* As an Irish surname, from ó Deaghaidh (“descendant of Deaghadh”), from deag (“good”) + ádh (“fate”), comparable to Goodwin.


Hawkin

From an Middle English personal name, diminutive of Hal (Henry), or from a byname "hawk" (Hawk), with -kin.


Dakin

en-proper noun

Dakin (countable and uncountable, plural Dakins)


Dawe

From a Middle English short form of David. Also a nickname from the (jack)daw.


Parry

Anglicised from Welsh ap Harri, "son of Henry".


Harries

A less common spelling of Harris, meaning "son of Harry".


Hendrick

From Low German Hendrick and Dutch Hendrik, equivalent to Henry.


Hendrix

A less common spelling of Hendricks, from Hendrick + the patronymic suffix -s.

A surname originating as a patronymic, variant of Hendricks.


Hendricks

Hendricks (countable and uncountable, plural Hendrickses)

From Hendrick + the patronymic suffix -s.


Henn

An English habitational surname transferred from the given name for someone from Heene, Sussex.

An English surname originating as a patronymic from a Middle English diminutive of Henry.

An English surname transferred from the nickname from a byname from hen.


McHenry

McHenry (countable and uncountable, plural McHenrys)

Anglicized form of Irish Mac Éinrí, a patronymic from a Gaelicized form of the personal name Henry.


McDavid

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McDavid (countable and uncountable, plural McDavids)

Partially translated form of Scottish Gaelic and Irish Mac Daibhéid (“son of David”). Compare McDade. By surface analysis, Mc- + David.

Is McDavid scoring and outscoring at normal levels?

2024 May 27, Allan Mitchell, “Breaking down Connor McDavid’s impact on the Oilers’ playoff run”, in The New York Times:


Elbaz

From Arabic البَاز (al-bāz, “falcon, bird of prey”), in some cases via Hebrew אלבז (the surname is common among Jews from the Maghreb).


Doidge

Southern English variant of Dodge, a medieval diminutive of Roger.


Hodgetts

From Hodgett from the given name Roger + patronymic suffix -s.


Hodgins

From Hodgin from the given name Roger + patronymic suffix -s.


Hodgin

From a medieval diminutive of Hodge, from the given name Roger.


Hadgkiss

Variant of Hodgkins from the given name Roger.


Hotchin

From a diminutive of Hodge from the given name Roger.


Dodgin

From a medieval diminutive of Dodge, from the given name Roger.


Hodkin

Variant of Hodgkin from the given name Roger.


Hodgkison

Variant of Hodgkin + -son from the given name Roger.


Adnett

From a medieval diminutive of the given name Adam.


Adey

From a diminutive of the given name Adam.


Rodgerson

From Rodger + -son. A rare spelling variant of Rogerson.


Hadcock

Variant of Adcock, a medieval diminutive of Adam.


Rosser

From Welsh Rhosier, a cognate of the English Roger.

A surname from Welsh [in turn originating as a patronymic].


Haddy

From a variant of Addy as diminutive of Adam.


Aitkins

From Aitkin, diminutive of Adam, plus -s (a patronymic suffix).


Adcock

From a diminutive of Adam + cock as a medieval masculine diminutive suffix.


Addams

From Adam + the patronymic suffix -s. A rare spelling variant of Adams.


Aitkens

From Aitken, diminutive of Adam, plus -s (a patronymic suffix).


Aikin

From a mostly Scottish variant of Adkin and Atkin, diminutives of the given name Adam.


Aikins

From Aikin, diminutive of Adam, plus -s (a patronymic suffix).


Kiddy

Clipping of McAdie and related names, anglicisations of Scottish Gaelic Mac Adaidh (patronymic surname), diminutive of Adam.


Ruggles

From Rudge as a diminutive of the given name Roger + patronymic suffix -s.


McAdie

Borrowed from Scottish Gaelic Mac Adaidh (patronymic surname), derived from a diminutive form of Adam.


Adkin

From a medieval diminutive of the given name. diminutive of Adam + -kin.


Aitchison

A Scottish surname originating as a patronymic.


Baddams

Anglicised from Welsh ab + given name Adam.


Dodgshon

From Dodge + -son, from the given name Roger.


Hodgkinson

From Hodgkin + -son from the given name Roger.


Adkins

From Adkin, diminutive of Adam + the patronymic suffix -s.


Aiken

en-proper noun

Aiken (countable and uncountable, plural Aikens)

From a mostly Irish variant of Adkin and Atkin, diminutives of the given name Adam.


Hodson

Hodson (countable and uncountable, plural Hodsons)

From Hodge + -son, from the given name Roger.


Leahy

Leahy (countable and uncountable, plural Leahys)

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Laochda (“descendant of Laochda”), a personal name derived from laoch (“hero”).


Keddie

Contraction of McAdie and related names, anglicisations of Scottish Gaelic Mac Adaidh, derived from a diminutive of Adam. Compare Keddy.


Keddy

Contraction of McAdie and related names, anglicisations of Scottish Gaelic Mac Adaidh, derived from a diminutive of Adam. Compare Keddie.


Prosser

Anglicised from Welsh ap + Rhosier, "son of Roger".


Hotchkiss

→ Japanese: ホッチキス (“stapler”)

→ Korean: 호치키스 (hochikiseu, “stapler”)

Variant of Hodgkins from the given name Roger.


Rudge

en-proper noun

Rudge (countable and uncountable, plural Rudges)

From dialectal Middle English rugge (“ridge”), or from the place name Rudge in Shropshire. Also from the given name Roger, and a nickname from Old French rouge (“red”).


Hodkinson

Variant of Hodgkin + -son from the given name Roger.


Hodgkins

From Hodgkin + -s from the given name Roger + patronymic suffix -s.


Hodges

Hodges (countable and uncountable, plural Hodgeses)

From Hodge, from the given name Roger + patronymic suffix -s.


Kiddie

Clipping of McAdie and related names, anglicisations of Scottish Gaelic Mac Adaidh (patronymic surname), diminutive of Adam.


Aitkin

From a mostly Scottish variant of Adkin and Atkin, diminutives of the given name Adam.


Addy

A surname originating as a patronymic, derived from the given name Adam.


Addis

From a diminutive of Adam + the patronymic suffix -s.


Tamlyn

From a medieval diminutive form of the given name Thomas.


Tomkinson

From a diminutive form of Thomas + -son.


Tamblyn

From the Middle English personal name Tamlin, a double diminutive of Thomas.


Tomkies

From a diminutive of the given name Thomas + the patronymic suffix -s.


Tomkiss

Variant of Tomkins, from a diminutive of the given name Thomas + the patronymic suffix -s.


Tomkin

From Tom + -kin. From a medieval diminutive form of the given name Thomas.


Townson

Altered form by folk etymology of Thomas + -son.


Tompson

From Tom + -son. Literally, “son of Thomas”.


Thomasson

From Thomas + -son. Literally, “son of Thomas”.


Hawe

A topographic and patronymic surname transferred from the given name.


Addyman

From Addy + man, denoting a servant of a man named Adam.


McGaw

Anglicised from Scottish Gaelic and Irish patronymic surnames derived from diminutives of Adam.


McCombe

Variant of McComb, anglicised from a Gaelic diminutive of Thomas.

A surname from Scottish Gaelic [in turn originating as a patronymic].


McOmish

Anglicisation of a Scottish Gaelic patronymic surname derived from a Gaelic equivalent of Thomas.


McCavish

Anglicisation of a Scottish Gaelic patronymic surname derived from a Gaelic diminutive of Thomas.


McTavish

Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mac Tamhais (“son of Thomas”).


MacTavish

Anglicisation of Scottish Gaelic MacTàmhais, a patronymic surname meaning "son of Thomas".


Hawes

en-proper noun

Hawes (countable and uncountable, plural Haweses)

From Hawe (“as a personal name”) + patronymic suffix -s.

Mike Hawes, the chief executive of the UK-based Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, said: “Manufacturers are committed to meeting all necessary safety and environmental regulations, but we cannot forecast how this crisis will unfold or what new requirements may be needed.”

2020 March 27, Gwyn Topham, Fiona Harvey, “Carmakers accused of trying to use crisis to avert emissions crackdown”, in The Guardian:


Higgin

From a Middle English [Term?], a diminutive of Hick, from Richard.


Ritch

From Richard, and from rich as a nickname.


McRitchie

From a Scottish Gaelic surname meaning "son of Richard".


Rickers

From Richard or the medieval given name Richer + the patronymic suffix -s.


Ironside

Two main origins:
* Scottish habitational surname from a place in Aberdeenshire, named with Old English earn (“eagle”) + sīde (“flank, side of a hill”).
* English surname from ironside, a nickname for a warrior.


Teruel

Teruel (countable and uncountable, plural Teruels)


Turnbull

From turn + bull, originally a nickname for someone who was strong enough to turn a bull.

An English surname transferred from the nickname.


Teague

From the Irish first name Tadhg. Cognate with English taig (“A Catholic”). Compare Mick and Paddy.


Hatchky

Hatchky, Fritz

1865, Public Documents of Massachusetts, volume 2, page 170:

1903, Canada Parliament House of Commons, Debates: Official Report (Queen’s Printer), volume 6, page ccv
Hatchky, Nazaibe, Appnmt. as Harbour Master: Ques. (Mr. Wilmot) 3630 (ii).


Barten

Borrowed from Dutch and North German Barten.


Markland

From Old Norse, coined by Leif Ericson, circa 1000 AD, compound of mark + land.


Háček

Violas were school instruments and were got ready for each rehearsal like sardines in a row by the porter, Mr Háček, in his own lodge.

1993, Jana Marhounová, Czech Music in the Web of Life (Empatie), page 125


Hacek

The man gave his name as Alois Hacek, a post-office clerk.

1933, Ferenc Körmendi, Escape to Life, Morrow, page 160:


Wik

Borrowed from Norwegian and Swedish Wik.


Hawsmith

Attention was called to the decease of permanent corresponding members Matthew Adams Stickney and William Hawsmith.

1895, The Numismatic Circular, volume 3, Spink & Son, page 1023:


Polis

Don't even think about the odds that Bobby Schmautz of Vancouver Canucks would score the winning goal or that Greg Polis of Pittsburgh Penguins would win the car.

1973 January 31, Ken Fathers, “Schmautz Gets Winner, Polis The Car”, in The Windsor Star, page 33:

Carol Polis, who figures she's the world's only lady boxing judge, is having the time of her life— but two things bother her a bit.

1973 May 2, Associated Press, “Carol Polis loves judging those bouts”, in Sarasota Herald-Tribune, page 3C:

Jared Polis of Boulder is the first openly gay man elected to Congress as a non-incumbent.

2009 August 10, Associated Press, “Colo. delegation votes party lines on hate crime”, in KXRM, www.coloradoconnection.com:


Tabor

From German Tabor, from Czech tábor (“camp”).


Segundo

Segundo (countable and uncountable, plural Segundos)

Borrowed from Spanish Segundo; this surname is predominantly found in Mexico.


Leek

Perhaps of pre-Anglo-Saxon (non-Old English) origin and instead from Celtic; compare Welsh llech and Irish leac (“stone”), both from Proto-Celtic *ɸlikkā.
Recorded as Lec in 1086 (DB).


Book

An Americanized form of German Buch, or alternatively a variant of Buck.


Tebow

A surname from French, equivalent to English Theobald.


Blyton

Blyton (countable and uncountable, plural Blytons)

From the Old Norse personal name Blígr + Old English tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).


Chartres

From French Chartres, from Latin Carnūtēs, name of a Gaulish tribe, from a Celtic root for “rock, stone”.


Ashby

From Old English æsċ (“ashtree”) + Old Norse býr (“farm, town”).


Zhou

From the pinyin romanization of the Chinese 周 (Zhōu). Doublet of Chau.


Ogas

Borrowed from Spanish Ogas. This surname is predominantly found in Argentina.


Kussmaul

From German Kussmaul or Kußmaul, from Czech Kosmály or Kosmál by means of folk etymology (as if a compound of Kuss (“kiss”) and Maul (“snout”)).


Chaplin

An occupational surname for a chaplain, from Middle English and Old French chapelain.

Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin (1889–1977), English comic actor and film director of the silent film era.


Turley

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Mac Toirdealbhaigh (“son of Toirdealbhach”), a personal name composed of the elements Tor (“Thor”) + dealbhach (“-like, in the shape of”). Compare McCurley.


Mandela

A surname from Xhosa, notably borne by Nelson Mandela.


Macormick

A surname. Alternative form of McCormick


Hearn

* As an Irish surname, from Ó heachthighearna, "descendant of Eachthighearna" from each (“horse”) + tighearna (“lord, master”).
* As an Irish surname, also from Ó huidhrín; see Herron.
* As an English surname, spelling variant of Heron.
* As an English surname, from Old English hyrne (“river bend, hill recess”).
* As an English surname, related to the root of horn.
* As an English surname, named after Herne in Bedfordshire, from Old English hær (“stone”).


Cormick

From Scottish Gaelic or from Irish Cormac, from Old Irish Cormac, Corbmac, from corb ("chariot") + mac ("son"). Many books also connect the name to an Irish word for "raven".

A surname from Irish. from Irish or Gaelic.


Rai

Indian/Hindi surname, from a personal name based on the noun राजा (rājā, “king”).

A surname from India found among people from northern India and coastal Karnataka.


McCarthy

en-proper noun

McCarthy (countable and uncountable, plural McCarthys or McCarthies)

Borrowed from Irish Mac Carthaigh (literally “son of Carthach”).


McCormick

From Scottish Gaelic and Irish Mac Cormaic (“son of Cormac”), from Old Irish Cormac, Corbmac, which is itself from corb (“chariot”) + son. The double patronymic "arose when the meaning of Cormac began to be lost sight of". Many books of baby names also connect the name to an Irish word for "raven".


Elphinstone

‘Good heavens !’ cried Mrs Elphinstone. ‘What is this you are driving us into ?’

1898, H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, Penguin Books, published 1962, page 105:


Reiland

From German, related to the Rhine river.


Rayaprolu

Borrowed from Telugu రాయప్రోలు (rāyaprōlu).


Akkineni

Transliteration of Telugu అక్కినేని (akkinēni).


Bhamidipati

Borrowed from Telugu భమిడిపాటి (bhamiḍipāṭi).


Nandamuri

Borrowed from Telugu నందమూరి (nandamūri). This surname is predominantly found in Andhra Pradesh.


Allu

From Telugu అల్లు (allu, “to plait, braid, weave, wattle (rods, twigs, etc.) together”).

der

A surname from Telugu used by members of many families in Andhra Pradesh, India.


Easterling

Possibly modeled on Dutch oosterling. Compare sterling.


Santos

From Romance (Spanish Santos, Portuguese Santos).


Paisley

en-proper noun

Paisley (countable and uncountable, plural Paisleys)

From Scottish Gaelic Pàislig (“pasture”).

A habitational surname from Scottish Gaelic.


Radney

'Mr. Radney, I will not obey you. Take that hammer away, or look to yourself.’


Weaver

A surname originating as an occupation for a weaver.


Gola

Two main origins:
* Borrowed from Italian Gola, a topographic surname from gola (“ravine”) or a variant of Cola.
* Borrowed from Polish Gola, a topographic surname from gola (“heath, moor; place without of trees”).


Bourbon

The French Bourbon dynasty is named for the lordship of Bourbon l'Archambault. The town's name derives from Gaulish Borvo, a local Celtic deity associated with hot springs, from Proto-Celtic *borvo (“froth, foam”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁- (“to be hot, boil”). Compare brew and fervent.
The subsidiary senses derive from the dynasty's name.


Stephani

Two main origins:
* Borrowed from German Stephani, a Latinized patronymic surname from the personal name Stephanus.
* Variant spelling of Italian Stefani.


Poe

en-proper noun

Poe (countable and uncountable, plural Poes)

A nickname from Old Norse pái (“peacock”). This surname is also well established in Ireland.

Edgar Allan Poe, an American author and poet of the 19th century, known especially for his dark themes.


Philippi

From Latin Philippī, from Ancient Greek Φίλιπποι (Phílippoi). Doublet of Filippi.


Columbo

German: Columbo


Singleton

en-prop

Singleton (countable and uncountable, plural Singletons)

From Old English sċingul (“shingle”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

[…] she busied herself in the front room, rustling about in Anne Kellaway’s box of buttony materials filled with rings of various sizes, chips of sheep horn for the Singletons, a ball of flax for shaping round buttons, bits of linen for covering them, both sharp and blunt needles, and several different colors and thicknesses of thread.

2007, Tracy Chevalier, Burning Bright, New York: Dutton, Part 4, Chapter 4, p. 126:

Graphs with diameter d and girth 2d#x2B;1 are known as Moore graphs. They were introduced by Hoffman and Singleton in a paper that can be viewed as one of the prime sources of algebraic graph theory.

2013, Chris Godsil, Gordon F. Royle, Algebraic Graph Theory, Springer, page 77:

A habitational surname from Old English.


Kipling

en-proper noun

Kipling (countable and uncountable, plural Kiplings)


Firmin

From Latin Firminus, name of early Christian saints, derivative of firmus (“firm”).


Jacot

Borrowed from French Jacot, a pet form of the personal name Jacques.


Lison

Lison (countable and uncountable, plural Lisons)

Multiple etymologies, including:
* French Lison, Calvados, or the Lison river, both in France
* a variant of Leyshon, from a Welsh personal name
* Slovak Lisoň
* Polish Lisoń


Boyne

Perhaps a modern form of Irish Mac Baoithin (“son of Baoithin”), a nickname from baoth (“foolish”).


Angajala

Borrowed from Telugu అంగజాల (aṅgajāla, “sentinel”).


Abelson

A Hebrew surname originating as a patronymic.


Ackerman

From Middle English acker (“field”). Originally denoted a farmer who did not own the fields he worked.


Molock

unk

Unidentified


Hoddle

Which team beat Glenn Hoddle's Tottenham 2-1 in the 2002 League Cup final?

2011, Chris Cowlin, The Greatest Football Quiz Book:


Romney

From a name of a village in Kent (see Old Romney), from a compound of Latin rumen (“gullet”) and Old English ēa (“river”).


Justin

Name of early saints, Latin Iūstīnus, from Iūstus + -īnus, from iūstus (“just”).