funstrix's Personal Name List

Means "son of Zora".

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

From a place name, derived from Old Norse sól meaning "sun" and berg meaning "mountain". As a Swedish name it may be ornamental.

From the given name Rhydderch.

Variant of Rey 1, Rey 2, Rye or Wray.

From 'Pen Dragon' meaning head dragon or dragons head. This was the name of the king Uther Pendragon who was King Arthurs father

From a place name meaning "Margaret's clearing".

Variant of O'Mooney.

Derived from Mawdesley in Lancashire, England; meaning "Maud's clearing," from the given name Maud and leah (woodland, clearing).

From the Norman French given name Mauger, derived from the Germanic name Malger.

Means "son of Maud". A famous bearer of this surname was the fourth American president James Madison (1751-1836).

Means "son of the servant of Brighid" in Irish.

Derived from the given name Lucas. A famous bearer of this surname is George Lucas (1944-), the creator of the Star Wars movies.

Variant of Guttenberg. A notable bearer was the inventor of the printing press Johannes Gutenberg (1398-1468), whose family hailed from an estate by this name.

Means "spring, well" in Spanish, derived from Latin fons.

Italian and Spanish cognate of Fontaine.

Originally belonged to a person who lived near a dry spring, from Latin fons "well, spring" and siccus "dry".

From places named for Galician figueira meaning "fig tree".

From the aristocratic title, which derives from Old English eorl meaning "nobleman, warrior". It was either a nickname for one who acted like an earl, or an occupational name for a person employed by an earl.

Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Buidheach, derived from buidhe meaning "yellow". A famous bearer was the American pioneer James Bowie (1796-1836), for whom the bowie knife is named. The British musician David Bowie (1947-2016), born David Robert Jones, took his stage name from the American pioneer (and the knife).

Means "son of Bodil".

Derived from the Welsh given name Bleddyn.

From a place name meaning "shelter, quiet place" in Cornish.

From the name of the Spanish region of Aragon, which was a medieval kingdom. The region was named for a river, which was itself derived from an Indo-European root meaning "water".