Behind the Name: isla_may's Personal Name List

Abbott

Usage: English

Pronounced: AB-ət

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English cognate of Abate.

Chen

Usage: Chinese

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

Pronounced: CHUN

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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.

Fuller

Usage: English

Pronounced: FUWL-ər(American English) FUWL-ə(British English)

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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.

Harris

Usage: English

Pronounced: HAR-is, HEHR-is

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Means "son of Harry".

Hooper

Usage: English

Pronounced: HOOP-ər(American English) HOOP-ə(British English)

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

Lake

Usage: English

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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.

Larson

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

Pronounced: LAHR-sən(American English) LAH-sən(British English)

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Americanized form of Larsson or Larsen.

Law

Usage: English

Pronounced: LAW

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Derived from Old English hlaw "hill".

Lawson

Usage: English

Pronounced: LAW-sən

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Means "son of Laurence 1".

Leach

Usage: English

Pronounced: LEECH

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

Waters 2

Usage: English

Pronounced: WAWT-ərz(American English) WAWT-əz(British English)

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Derived from the given name Walter.