zaidelles's Personal Name List

Atkinson
Usage: English
Pronounced: AT-kin-sən
Means "son of Atkin", a medieval diminutive of Adam.
Azarola
Usage: Basque
Possibly from Basque azeri meaning "fox".
Barker
Usage: English
Pronounced: BAHR-kər
From Middle English bark meaning "to tan". This was an occupational name for a leather tanner.
Blythe
Usage: English
Pronounced: BLIEDH
From Old English meaning "happy, joyous, blithe".
Bryce
Usage: English
Pronounced: BRIES
From the given name Brice.
Bunker
Usage: English
Pronounced: BUNG-kər
Derived from Old French bon cuer meaning "good heart".
Campbell
Usage: Scottish
Pronounced: KAM-bəl
From a Gaelic nickname cam beul meaning "wry or crooked mouth". The surname was later represented in Latin documents as de bello campo meaning "of the fair field".
Cousland
Usage: Scottish
Of local origin from Cousland in the parish of Cranston, Midlothian.
Diggs
Usage: English
Dutch
Usage: English
Fisher
Usage: English, Jewish
Pronounced: FISH-ər(English)
Cognate of Fischer.
Hale
Usage: English
Pronounced: HAYL
Derived from Old English halh meaning "nook, recess, hollow".
Hawke
Usage: English
Pronounced: HAWK
Variant of Hawk
Hawthorne
Usage: English
Pronounced: HAW-thawrn
Denoted a person who lived near a hawthorn bush, a word derived from Old English hagaþorn, from haga meaning "haw berry" and þorn meaning "thorn bush". A famous bearer was the American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), author of The Scarlet Letter.
Meyer 1
Usage: German
Pronounced: MIE-u
From Middle High German meier meaning "bailiff, administrator", derived from Latin maior meaning "greater". Later it also denoted a tenant farmer. The spellings Meier and Meyer are more common in northern Germany while Maier and Mayer are more common in southern Germany.
Ortega
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: or-TEH-gha
From a Spanish place name (belonging to various villages) derived from ortiga "nettle".
Trevelyan
Usage: Welsh, Cornish
Derived from Welsh tref "village, settlement" or Cornish trev "farmstead, town" combined with the given name Elyan.
Vång
Usage: Swedish
Pronounced: VONG
Swedish variant of Wang 3.
Watts
Usage: English
Pronounced: WAHTS
Patronymic derived from the Middle English given name Wat or Watt, a diminutive of the name Walter.
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