isla_may's Personal Name List

Waters 2

Usage: English

Pronounced: WAWT-ərz

Derived from the given name Walter.

Leach

Usage: English

Pronounced: LEECH

Originally indicated a person who was a physician, from the medieval practice of using leeches to bleed people of ills.

Lawson

Usage: English

Pronounced: LAW-sən

Means "son of Laurence 1".

Law

Usage: English

Pronounced: LAW

Derived from Old English hlaw "hill".

Larson

Usage: Swedish (Anglicized), Danish (Anglicized), Norwegian (Anglicized)

Pronounced: LAHR-sən(English)

Americanized form of Larsson or Larsen.

Lakes

Usage: English

Lake

Usage: English

Topographic name for someone who lived by a stream, Old English lacu, or a habitational name from a place named with this word, for example in Wiltshire and Devon. Modern English lake (Middle English lake) is only distantly related, if at all; it comes via Old French from Latin lacus. This meaning, which ousted the native sense, came too late to be found as a place name element, but may lie behind some examples of the surname.

Hooper

Usage: English

Pronounced: HOO-pər

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

Harris

Usage: English

Pronounced: HAR-is, HEHR-is

Means "son of Harry".

Fuller

Usage: English

Pronounced: FUWL-ər

Occupational name for a fuller, a person who thickened and cleaned coarse cloth by pounding it. It is derived via Middle English from Latin fullo.

Chen

Usage: Chinese

Other Scripts: 陈(Chinese) 陳(Traditional Chinese)

Pronounced: CHUN

From Chinese 陈 (chén) meaning "exhibit, display, old, ancient" and also referring to the former state of Chen, which existed in what is now Henan province from the 11th to 5th centuries BC.

Abbott

Usage: English

Pronounced: AB-ət

English cognate of Abate.