Furcifer's Personal Name List

Means "eagle" in German.

From Italian albero meaning "tree", ultimately from Latin arbor, referring to someone who lived in the woods or worked as a woodcutter.

Indicated a person who lived by or at an apple garden, from Dutch appel "apple" and hof "yard, court".

From the name of various English towns, derived from Old English æppel "apple" and Old Norse býr "farm, settlement".

From Latin arbor meaning "tree".

From Old English æsc meaning "ash tree", indicating a person who lived near ash trees.

Meaning "ash tree field".

From various English place names, derived from the Old English given name Bacga combined with leah "woodland, clearing".

Derived from a number of English place names that variously mean "barley hill", "barn hill", "boar clearing" or "barley clearing".

English cognate of Basso.

Name for someone living near a beach, stream, or beech tree.

Means "near the beech trees".

English cognate of Bohn.

From the Middle English nickname Bere meaning "bear" (Old English bera, which is also found as a byname), or possibly from a personal name derived from a short form of the various Germanic compound names with this first element. Compare for example Bernhard. The bear has generally been regarded with a mixture of fear and amusement because of its strength and unpredictable temper on the one hand and its clumsy gait on the other, and in the medieval period it was also thought to typify the sins of sloth and gluttony. All these characteristics are no doubt reflected in the nickname. Throughout the Middle Ages the bear was a familiar figure in popular entertainments such as bear baiting and dancing bears.

Surname meaning a bear cub.

From French place names derived from beau "beautiful" and mont "mountain".

English cognate of Bach 1.

Means "beautiful rose" in French.

From Old High German, Old Dutch and Old Norse berg meaning "mountain".

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).

Occupational name for a person who raised or hunted birds.

From an English place name meaning "black wood".

Means "bloom, flower" in Swedish.

Derived from German Blumen "flowers" and Thal "valley".

Americanized form of Boomgaarden.

Denoted a person who lived near a brook, a word derived from Old English broc.

From an English place name derived from bucc "buck, male deer" and leah "woodland, clearing".

From a nickname for a person who acted like a bull.

From a nickname meaning "young bull".

Originally a name for a person who lived near a prominent bush or thicket.

From a place name meaning "cold field", from Old English ceald "cold" and feld "pasture, field".

Means "horse" in Italian, an occupational name for a horseman.

An invented Jewish name based on Yiddish tsitrin "lemon tree".

Derived from various place names that meant "ford by a cliff" in Old English.

Occupational name for a keeper of horses, derived from Middle English colt.

From various English place names, which meaning either "coal valley", "coal hill" or "cow pasture" in Old English.

From Old English dæl meaning "valley", originally indicating a person who lived there.

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

Means "of the river" in Spanish.

Nickname for a lordly, impressive, or sharp-eyed man, from Middle English egle "eagle" (from Old French aigle, from Latin aquila).

From place names meaning derived from Old English eofor "boar" and leah "woodland, clearing".

Name for a person who lived on or near a field or pasture, from Old English feld.

From Middle English fische, fish ‘fish’, a metonymic occupational name for a fisherman or fish seller, or a nickname for someone thought to resemble a fish.
Americanized spelling of German and Jewish Fisch.

Means "son of Floro" in Spanish.

From Middle English flour meaning "flower, blossom", derived from Old French flur, Latin flos. This was a nickname given to a sweet person. In other cases it could be a metonymic occupational name for a maker of flour (a word derived from the same source).

Name given to someone who lived by a ford, possibly the official who maintained it. A famous bearer was the American industrialist Henry Ford (1863-1947).

Originally belonged to a person who lived near or in a forest. It was probably originally derived, via Old French forest, from Latin forestam (silva) meaning "outer (wood)".

Denoted a keeper or one in charge of a forest, or one who has charge of growing timber in a forest (see Forest).

Derived from Swedish fors meaning "waterfall" and berg meaning "mountain".

From the name of the animal. It was originally a nickname for a person with red hair or a crafty person.

From the English word frog which is a type of amphibian.

From Old English and Old High German meaning "frost", a nickname for a person who had a cold personality or a white beard.

Occupational surname for one who was a gardener, from Old French jardin meaning "garden" (of Frankish origin).

Means "cat" in Italian, originally a nickname for an agile person.

From Old English and Old High German gold meaning "gold", an occupational name for someone who worked with gold or a nickname for someone with yellow hair. As a Jewish name it is ornamental.

From Old English graf meaning "grove of trees". A famous bearer was the American president Grover Cleveland (1837-1908).

Originally a nickname for a person who had a hawk-like appearance or who acted in a fierce manner, derived from Old English hafoc "hawk".

Denoted a person who lived near a hawthorn bush, a word derived from Old English hagaþorn, from haga meaning "enclosure, yard" and þorn meaning "thorn bush". A famous bearer was the American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), author of The Scarlet Letter.

Means "deer, hart" in German. This was a nickname for a person who resembled a deer in some way, or who raised or hunted deer.

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.

Indicated a person who lived near a linden tree, derived from Old High German linta or Old Dutch linda.

From various places in Spain meaning "moon".

Means "open land by the River Maun", from the Celtic river name combined with the Old English word feld "field".

Topographic name from Old French montagne "mountain" (see Montagne).

Topographic surname for someone who lived near an oak tree or in an oak wood, from Middle English oke "oak".

From Middle English pecok meaning "peacock". It was originally a nickname for a proud or haughty person.

An occupational surname for a gardener.

Variant of Read 1.

Denoted a person who lived near a ridge, from Old English hrycg.

From Spanish ribera meaning "bank, shore", from Latin riparius.

Topographic name for someone who lived near a notable crag or outcrop, from Middle English rokke "rock" (see Roach), or a habitational name from a place named with this word, as for example Rock in Northumberland.

Italian and Catalan form of Rose 1.

Means "rose bushes" in Spanish.

Means "rose" from Middle English, Old French and Middle High German rose, all from Latin rosa. All denote a person of a rosy complexion or a person who lived in an area abundant with roses. As a Jewish surname it is ornamental, from Yiddish רויז (roiz).

Anglicized form of Ó Ruadháin.

Derived from the given name Solomon.

From Old English, indicated the original nearer lived on sandy ground.

Posibly from the given name Shell.

From a nickname for a person with grey hair, from Old English seolfor "silver".

From Middle English sterre meaning "star". This was usually a nickname, but it could also occasionally be a sign name from the name of an inn called the Star.

Occupational name for a steelworker, from Old English stele meaning "steel".

Derived from city of Stirling, which is itself of unknown meaning.

Nickname for a man of blustery temperament.

English topographic name for someone who lived beside a stream, Middle English streme. Americanized form of Swedish Ström or Danish Strøm (see Strom).

Originally indicated the bearer was from a town of this name, derived from Old English sumor "summer" and feld "field".

Originally applied to a person who lived in or near a thorn bush.

From Old High German and Old Dutch fogal meaning "bird". It was originally an occupational name for a bird catcher, or a nickname for a person who liked to sing.

From various English place names, derived from Old English winn "meadow, pasture" and feld "field".

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

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

Occupational name for a forester, meaning "ward of the wood" in Old English.