persyflower653's Personal Name List

Originally denoted one who lived in or worked in a forest, derived from Old English wudu "wood".

Habitational name from places in Cambridgeshire and South Yorkshire called Wentworth, probably from the Old English byname Wintra meaning ‘winter’ + Old English worð ‘enclosure’. It is, however, also possible that the name referred to a settlement inhabited only in winter.

Means "dweller in the rice fields", from Japanese 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy" and 中 (naka) meaning "middle".

Spanish form of Sousa.

Originally indicated a dweller on a hill range or ridge, from Spanish sierra "mountain range", derived from Latin serra "saw".

From an English place name, derived from Old English scir "bright" and leah "woodland, clearing".

Derived from Spanish romero meaning "pilgrim to Rome".

From the given name Redmond.

Variant of Penn 2.

From the Irish Ó hEaghra, which means "descendant of Eaghra", Eaghra being a given name of uncertain origin. Supposedly, the founder of the clan was Eaghra, a 10th-century lord of Luighne. A famous fictional bearer of this surname is Scarlett O'Hara, a character in Margaret Mitchell's Gone With The Wind (1936).

English variant spelling of Oakes and Americanized form of Jewish Ochs.

Means "from the north" from Old French norreis. It either denoted someone who originated in the north or someone who lived in the northern part of a settlement.

From the name of a village in the province of Álava in Spain. It is possibly of Basque origin, or possibly from Latin mons "mountain, hill".

From Japanese 宮 (miya) meaning "temple, shrine, palace" and 内 (uchi) meaning "inside".

Originally given to a person who lived on or near a leah, Old English meaning "woodland, clearing".

From the given name Laurens.

The name of Marquis de Lafayette; a famous French man during the revolutionary war.

Patronymic from the Anglo-Scandinavian personal name Ingell, Old Norse Ingjaldr.

Laura Ingalls Wilder (February 7, 1867 – February 10, 1957) was an American writer, most notably the author of the Little House series of children's novels based on her childhood in a pioneer family. Her daughter Rose encouraged Laura to write and helped her to edit and publish the novels.

From an English place name, derived from Old English hamel "crooked, mutilated" and dun "hill". This was the name of a town in Leicestershire, England (which no longer exists).

From the given name Grace

Variant of Forester.

Anglicized form of Irish Ó Fionnagáin meaning "descendant of Fionnagán". The given name Fionnagán is a diminutive of Fionn.

Patronymic from the personal name Ever. See also Evers.

From the given name Everard.

Either an Americanized form of German Dietz or a North German surname which is ultimately derived from the same source (from an old personal name formed with Old High German diota "people, nation"). In popular culture this is the surname of the characters Delia, Charles and their teenage goth daughter Lydia from the Tim Burton movie Beetlejuice (1988) and the animated television series Beetlejuice (1989-1991).

comes from blithe

From Middle High German birche, Old English birce, Old Danish birk, all meaning "birch". This was likely a topographic name for someone living by a birch tree or a birch forest. It may also be a habitational name from places in Germany named with this word (see also: Birke).

Denoted someone who came from Benton, England, which is derived from Old English beonet "bent grass" and tun "enclosure".

Means "stream, brook" in Spanish.

From a popular medieval personal name, Angelo, Latin Angelus, from Greek angelos "messenger, angel" (considered as a messenger sent from God).