Sharley's Personal Name List

Derived from an Old English place name meaning "hill belonging to Wine".

Patronymic from Serbo-Croatian Vlah meaning "Romanian, Wallachian".

From the given name Vitale.

Variant of Van Laar.

From the given name Valerio.

Means "son of Baldo".

Name for a person who lived near the southern gate of a town or in a town named Southgate, from Old English suþ and gæt.

Variant of Seabrook.

Originally derived from the name of a town in Lancashire, itself from Old Norse hryggr "ridge" and býr "farm, settlement".

Derived from Old French pelletier "fur trader".

Derived from the Old English given name Uhtric.

Originally denoted one who came from a town of this name England, meaning "north farm".

Derived from the given name Muriel.

Means "blackbird", ultimately from Latin merula. The blackbird is a symbol of a naive person.

Occupational name for a trader in textiles, from Old French mercier, derived from Latin merx meaning "merchandise".

Originally a name for a person from Marlow in Buckinghamshire, England. The place name means "remnants of a lake" from Old English mere "lake" and lafe "remnants, remains". A notable bearer was the English playwright and poet Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593).

Variant of Kozłowski.

Derived from Russian козёл (kozyol) meaning "male goat", probably used to denote a goatherd.

Variant of Kelly 1.

Habitational name derived from a number of locations named Harlow, from Old English hær "rock, heap of stones" or here "army", combined with hlaw "hill".

From a place name meaning "fair ravine, fair cliff" in Old English.

Topographic name derived from Old English meaning "from the end cottage".

Habitational name for a person from the town of Elsworth in Cambridgeshire. The town's name is derived from the masculine given name Ella (a short form of Old English names beginning with the elements ælf meaning "elf" or eald meaning "old") combined with worþ meaning "enclosure".

Means "son of Luca 1".

Means "of the fountain" in Spanish.

From the Old English given name Deora meaning "dear, beloved".

Derived from French clou meaning "nail", referring to someone who made or sold nails.

Indicated a person who lived near a causeway, from Old French caucie.

Originally a diminutive of Beck 1 or Beck 3.

From an English place name meaning "ash enclosure" in Old English.