Impala1729's Personal Name List

From Middle High German or Middle English wolf meaning "wolf", or else from an Old German given name beginning with this element.

From an English place name, derived from Venta, of Celtic origin, and Latin castrum meaning "camp, fortress".

This is an English residential or perhaps occupational surname. It may originate from one of the various places in England called 'The Willows', or even a place such as Newton le Willows in Lancashire, or it may describe a supplier of willow.

From the name of various English towns, derived from Old English welig "willow" and Old Norse býr "farm, settlement".

Variant of Westley.

Topographic name for someone who lived in a valley, Middle English vale (Old French val, from Latin vallis). The surname is now also common in Ireland, where it has been Gaelicized as de Bhál.

From Hungarian vad meaning "wild", either a nickname or an occupational name for a hunter of wild game.

English (Yorkshire) habitational name from Thackray in the parish of Great Timble, West Yorkshire, now submerged in Fewston reservoir. It was named with Old Norse þak ‘thatching’, ‘reeds’ + (v)rá ‘nook’, ‘corner’.

Variant of Tatham.

Derived from the Old English given name Tata.

Created by author George R. R. Martin for his series A Song of Ice and Fire, published beginning 1996, and the television adaptation Game of Thrones (2011-2019). The Targaryens were the rulers of Westeros for almost 300 years until shortly before the beginning of the first novel. The name is presumably from the Valyrian language, though Martin provides no explanation of the meaning.

Occupational name for a person who tanned animal hides, from Old English tannian "to tan", itself from Late Latin and possibly ultimately of Celtic origin.

Of Norman origin, possibly derived from an unattested Germanic given name composed of the elements dala "to destroy" and bod "message".

Variant of Sumner.

German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname from German Star, Middle High German star, ‘starling’, probably denoting a talkative or perhaps a voracious person.
Dutch: nickname either for a gloomy person or for someone who was rigid and inflexible, from Middle Dutch staer ‘having a troubled or gloomy expression’; ‘tight’, ‘stiff’.
English translation of German and Jewish Stern 2.
Slovenian: from the adjective star ‘old’ (see Stare).

Means "tailor", derived from Middle English snithen "to cut", an occupational name for a person who stitched coats and clothing.

Variant of Sloan.

From a nickname for a person with grey hair, from Old English seolfor "silver".

Means "rose mountain" in German and Swedish. As a Swedish and Jewish name it is ornamental.

Means "rose" from Middle English, Old French and Middle High German rose, all from Latin rosa. All denote a person of a rosy complexion or a person who lived in an area abundant with roses. As a Jewish surname it is ornamental, from Yiddish רויז (roiz).

Denoted a person who lived near a river, from Middle English, from Old French riviere meaning "river", from Latin riparius meaning "riverbank".

From Spanish ribera meaning "bank, shore", from Latin riparius.

Means "bank, shore" in Italian, from Latin ripa, denoting one who lived by a river or a lake.

Variant of Reilly.

From the name of the town of Rimington in Lancashire, derived from the name of the stream Riming combined with Old English tun meaning "enclosure, town".

Variant of Read 1.

Americanized form of Rieser. A famous bearer is American actress Elizabeth Reaser (1975-).

Transferred use of the surname Radley.

Nickname from Middle English, Old French prince (Latin princeps), presumably denoting someone who behaved in a regal manner or who had won the title in some contest of skill.

Originally given to a person who played on a pipe (a flute).

English: topographic name for someone who lived by a hill with a sharp point, from Old English pic ‘point’, ‘hill’, which was a relatively common place name element.
English: metonymic occupational name for a pike fisherman or nickname for a predatory individual, from Middle English pike.
English: metonymic occupational name for a user of a pointed tool for breaking up the earth, Middle English pike.
English: metonymic occupational name for a medieval foot soldier who used a pike, a weapon consisting of a sharp pointed metal end on a long pole, Middle English pic (Old French pique, of Germanic origin).
English: nickname for a tall, thin person, from a transferred sense of one of the above.
English: from a Germanic personal name (derived from the root ‘sharp’, ‘pointed’), found in Middle English and Old French as Pic.
English: nickname from Old French pic ‘woodpecker’, Latin picus. Compare Pye and Speight.
Irish: in the south, of English origin; in Ulster a variant Anglicization of Gaelic Mac Péice (see McPeake).
Americanized spelling of German Peik, from Middle Low German pek ‘sharp, pointed tool or weapon’.

English habitational name from Pennywell in Tyne and Wear or from a similarly named lost place elsewhere.

Derived from the given name Oliver.

Habitational name from the former Galician juridical district Terra de Nóvoa, in Ourense province.

An anglicized form of the Gaelic surname O Naraigh. This surname is derived from the personal name Narach which means modest.

Originally indicated a person from the town of Moyon in Normandy.

Occupational surname meaning "miller", referring to a person who owned or worked in a grain mill, derived from Middle English mille "mill".

Referred to one who lived in a meadow, from Old English mædwe.

Anglicized form of Mac an tSaoi, meaning "son of the scholar".

Anglicized form of MacAoidh.

Variant of Lester.

English: habitational name from any of various minor places named Loxley, as for example one in Warwickshire, which is named with the Old English personal name Locc + leah ‘woodland clearing’.

Transferred use of the surname Loxley.

From Old English cyning "king", originally a nickname for someone who either acted in a kingly manner or who worked for or was otherwise associated with a king. A famous bearer was the American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968).

Derived from the Irish Gaelic name Caomhánach, which means "a student of saint Caomhán". It was the name used by a 12th-century king of Leinster, Domhnall Caomhánach, the eldest son of the historic Irish king Diarmait Mac Murchada.

Occupational name that referred to someone who hunted for a living, from Old English hunta.

Occupational name for someone who put the metal hoops around wooden barrels.

Anglicized form of Irish Ó hAodha meaning "descendant of Aodh".

Means "male deer". It was originally acquired by a person who lived in a place frequented by harts, or bore some resemblance to a hart.

Variant of Halliwell meaning "holy spring".

English: topographic name from Middle English hal(l)owes ‘nooks’, ‘hollows’, from Old English halh (see Hale). In some cases the name may be genitive, rather than plural, in form, with the sense ‘relative or servant of the dweller in the nook’.

Derived from various place names in England named with Old English halig "holy" and well "spring, well".

As a Scottish surname, this is either a habitational name for a person from the village of Guthrie near Forfar, itself from Gaelic gaothair meaning "windy place" (a derivative of gaoth "wind") and the locative suffix -ach, or alternatively it might possibly be an Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mag Uchtre meaning "son of Uchtre", a personal name of uncertain origin, perhaps related to uchtlach "child".

As an Irish surname, it was adopted as an English translation of Gaelic Ó Fhlaithimh "descendant of Flaitheamh", a byname meaning "prince". This is the result of an erroneous association of the Gaelic name in the form Ó Fhlaithimh (Fh- being silent) with the Gaelic word laithigh "mud", and of mud with gutters, and an equally erroneous association of the Scottish surname Guthrie with the word gutter.

Variant of Gray.

Means "son of Gib".

Patronymic formed from a diminutive of Gib.

English from the medieval personal name Gibbon, a pet form of Gibb.

Derived from the given name Gib.

Status name for a free man, as opposed to a bondsman or serf, in the feudal system, from Middle High German vri "free", "independent".

From a name for someone who dwelt near a marsh, from Old English fenn meaning "fen, swamp, bog".

From Irish Gaelic Ó Fearadaigh "descendant of Fearadach", a personal name probably based on fear "man", perhaps meaning literally "man of the wood". A famous bearer was British chemist and physicist Michael Faraday (1791-1867).

From place names meaning derived from Old English eofor "boar" and leah "woodland, clearing".

Variant of Eberhardt.

First used as a surname in September 2000, first appearing on a birth certificate in July 2009. Meaning "protected by angels"; the origin is an adopted surname from a type of quartz crystal, often referred to as a new millennium crystal. The el as a prefix is of, or pertaining to and relates to celestial or heavenly.

Its meaning That is fruitfulness or fertility. It comes from the Irish name Eire Or Eriu (Erin, Eirinn). Another ancient name is Ivernia (Hibernia or Iverni) and its meaning is the green and fertile lands.

From any of the various English towns with this name, derived from Old English ea "river" and tun "enclosure, yard, town".

From the name of various places meaning "east town" in Old English.

From the given name Domingo.

Possibly from French doré meaning "golden". A famous bearer was the French fashion designer Christian Dior (1905-1957).

Occupational name meaning "dyer" in Old English (originally this was a feminine word, but it was later applied to men as well).

Derived from Middle English dene meaning "valley".

An English surname probably derived from the French de la mare, meaning "of the sea", though some contend that "mare" springs from the English word moor. This surname probably arose after the Norman conquest of Britain.

Means "person who collects, prepares and/or sells herbs and spices" (from Middle English cullen "to pick" + pepper).

Irish: reduced form of MacCovey, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Cobhthaigh (see Coffey).
English (Surrey and West Sussex): unexplained.

From the valley (Dale) of the river Cover.

Miles (Myles) Coverdale, Bishop of Exeter during the reign of Henry VIII, was the first person to translate the complete Bible into English, in 1535.

Variant of Córdoba.

Means "lamb" in Spanish, either used as an occupational name for a shepherd or a religious name referring to Jesus as the Lamb of God.

Either from the French word corde meaning "cord/rope/string", or from the Latin word cor meaning "heart." This was the surname of Charlotte Corday, the assassin who killed Jacobin leader Jean-Paul Marat during the French revolution.

Variant of O'Connor.

Variant of Cleary

Anglicized form of Mac Fhlannchaidh.

From Middle English chirie, cherye "cherry", hence a metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of cherries, or possibly a nickname for someone with rosy cheeks.
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The surname Cherry was brought to England by a great wave of migration following the Norman Conquest of 1066. The name Cherry is derived from the Anglo Norman French word, 'cherise', which means cherry, and was probably used to indicate someone who lived by a cherry tree.

86,045 people have this surname, and is most prevalent in the United States.

From a place name meaning "cold field", from Old English ceald "cold" and feld "pasture, field".

Occupational name for a person who operated a cart to transport goods, from Norman French caretier. A famous bearer is the former American president Jimmy Carter (1924-).

From Irish Ó Braonáin meaning "descendant of Braonán", a byname meaning "rain, moisture, drop" (with a diminutive suffix).

Anglicized form of the Irish name Ó Brádaigh meaning "descendant of Brádach". A famous bearer is the American football quarterback Tom Brady (1977-).

Occupational name for an archer, derived from Middle English bowe, Old English boga meaning "bow".

It is the surname of the famous fictional character Emma Bovary protagonist of Gustave Flaubert's novel.

Irish anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Buadhachanáin, a double diminutive of buadhach ‘victorious’

Means "beautiful rose" in French.

Possibly a variant of Bell 1 or Bell 2.

From Middle English belle meaning "bell". It originated as a nickname for a person who lived near the town bell, or who had a job as a bell-ringer.

Derived from Middle High German becker meaning "baker".

From Old English beam "beam" or "post". It could be a topographic name from someone living near a post or tree, or it could be a metonymic occupational name for a weaver.

Americanized form of German Boehm or Baum.

Possibly an Americanized form of Beiler.

From the Middle English given name Baye.

Derived from a number of English place names that variously mean "barley hill", "barn hill", "boar clearing" or "barley clearing".

Variant of Bain.

From Middle English baili meaning "bailiff", which comes via Old French from Latin baiulus "porter".

Name for someone who dwelled by an ash tree, from Middle English asche or asshe meaning "ash tree".

Derived from the Old French and Middle English personal name Amys, Amice, which is either directly from Latin amicus ‘friend’, used as a personal name, or via a Late Latin derivative of this, Amicius.

Habitational name from any of various places named in Old English as Eaddingtun 'settlement associated with Eadda' or Æddingtun 'settlement associated with Æddi'.