El is a Beth's Personal Name List
Arden
Usage: English
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
From various English place names, which were derived from a Celtic word meaning "high".
(Note: In some cases it may be an anglicized form of the Dutch surname Aarden.)
Barrett
Usage: English
Pronounced: BAR-it, BEHR-it
Rating: 30% based on 3 votes
Probably derived from the Middle English word barat meaning "trouble, deception", originally given to a quarrelsome person.
Beckett
Usage: English
Pronounced: BEHK-it
Rating: 83% based on 3 votes
Bennett
Usage: English
Pronounced: BEHN-it
Rating: 67% based on 3 votes
Derived from the medieval English given name
Bennett.
Blythe
Usage: English
Pronounced: BLIEDH
Rating: 60% based on 3 votes
From Old English meaning "happy, joyous, blithe".
Cross
Usage: English
Pronounced: KRAWS
Rating: 3% based on 3 votes
Locative name meaning
"cross", ultimately from Latin
crux. It denoted one who lived near a cross symbol or near a crossroads.
Darwin
Usage: English
Pronounced: DAHR-win(American English) DAH-win(British English)
Personal remark: it means "dear friend" :)
Rating: 73% based on 4 votes
From the given name
Deorwine. A famous bearer was the British naturalist Charles Darwin (1809-1882).
Doran
Usage: Irish
Rating: 13% based on 3 votes
From Irish Ó Deoradháin meaning "descendant of Deoradhán", where Deoradhán is a given name meaning "exile, wanderer".
Douglass
Usage: Scottish
Pronounced: DUG-ləs(English)
Rating: 7% based on 3 votes
Elric
Usage: English, Popular Culture
Rating: 7% based on 3 votes
From the medieval English givin name
Elric. Notable bearers were the Fullmetal Alchemist characters Edward and Alphonse Elric, as well as their mother, Trisha Elric.
Findlay
Usage: Scottish
Rating: 70% based on 3 votes
Glass
Usage: English, German
Pronounced: GLAS(English)
Rating: 33% based on 3 votes
From Old English glæs or Old High German glas meaning "glass". This was an occupational name for a glass blower or glazier.
Graybill
Usage: English (American)
Rating: 7% based on 3 votes
Anglicized form of Swiss German
Krähenbühl, meaning "crow hill".
Greenleaf
Usage: English
Rating: 60% based on 3 votes
From Old English grēne "green" and lēaf "leaf", presumably applied as a nickname, the significance of which is now lost.
Harker
Usage: English (British)
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
English (mainly northeastern England and West Yorkshire): habitational name from either of two places in Cumbria, or from one in the parish of Halsall, near Ormskirk, Lancashire. The Cumbrian places are probably named from Middle English hart ‘male deer’ + kerr ‘marshland’. The one in Lancashire has the same second element, while the first is probably Old English har ‘gray’ or hara ‘hare’. nickname for an eavesdropper or busybody, from an agent derivative of Middle English herkien ‘to listen’.
Lewis 1
Usage: English
Pronounced: LOO-is
Rating: 90% based on 2 votes
Derived from the given name
Lewis. The author C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) was a bearer of this surname.
Lillis
Usage: Irish, English
Rating: 80% based on 2 votes
Locke
Usage: English, German
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
March
Usage: English
Pronounced: MAHRCH
Rating: 67% based on 3 votes
From the English word meaning, "to walk stiffly and proudly" or possibly from the month.
Martin
Usage: English, French, German, Swedish
Pronounced: MAHR-tin(American English) MAH-tin(British English) MAR-TEHN(French) MAR-teen(German) MAT-in(Swedish)
Rating: 77% based on 3 votes
Derived from the given name
Martin. This is the most common surname in France.
Maturin
Usage: French
Rating: 33% based on 3 votes
From the French male personal name Maturin, from Latin Mātūrīnus, a derivative of Mātūrus, literally "timely". It was borne by the Irish "Gothic" novelist Charles Maturin (1782-1824).
Meredith
Usage: Welsh
Rating: 20% based on 2 votes
From the personal name Maredudd. In Welsh the stress is on the second syllable. The Old Welsh form is Morgetiud, of which the first element may mean "pomp, splendor" and the second is iudd "lord".
Merrick
Usage: Welsh
Rating: 33% based on 3 votes
Derived from the given name
Meurig.
Osborne
Usage: English
Pronounced: AHZ-bawrn(American English) AWZ-bawn(British English)
Rating: 13% based on 3 votes
Derived from the given name
Osborn.
Ransom
Usage: English
Rating: 37% based on 3 votes
Sill
Usage: English
Pronounced: sil
Rating: 40% based on 3 votes
Snow
Usage: English, Jewish (Anglicized)
Pronounced: SNO(English)
Rating: 47% based on 3 votes
Nickname denoting someone with very white hair or an exceptionally pale complexion, from Old English snaw "snow".
Americanized and shortened form of any of the Jewish ornamental names composed with German Schnee, Schnei, Schneu ‘snow’ as the first element.
Unwin
Usage: English
Rating: 7% based on 3 votes
From the Old English male personal name Hūnwine, literally "bearcub-friend" (later confused with Old English unwine "enemy"). Bearers include British publisher Sir Stanley Unwin (1885-1968) and "Professor" Stanley Unwin (1911-2002), South African-born British purveyor of comical nonsense language.
Vale
Usage: English
Pronounced: VAYL
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
Topographic name for someone who lived in a valley, Middle English vale (Old French val, from Latin vallis). The surname is now also common in Ireland, where it has been Gaelicized as de Bhál.
Webster
Usage: English
Pronounced: WEHB-stər(American English) WEHB-stə(British English)
Rating: 60% based on 3 votes
Occupational name meaning "weaver", from Old English webba, a derivative of wefan "to weave".
Whitaker
Usage: English
Pronounced: WIT-ə-kər(American English) WIT-ə-kə(British English)
Rating: 30% based on 3 votes
From a place name composed of Old English
hwit "white" and
æcer "field".
Wyatt
Usage: English
Pronounced: WIE-ət
Rating: 80% based on 3 votes
From the medieval given name
Wyot.
Wyeth
Usage: English
Pronounced: WIE-əth
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
May come either from the Old English word "withig" meaning "willow" or from Guyat, a pet form of the Old French given name
Guy. Probably unrelated to
Wyatt.
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