sillygoober's Personal Name List

Kafka
Usage: Czech
Derived from Czech kavka meaning "jackdaw". A notable bearer was the author Franz Kafka (1883-1924).
Qu
Usage: Chinese
Other Scripts: (Chinese)
Pronounced: CHUY
From Chinese 屈 (qū) meaning "bent, crooked", also referring to the ancient fief of Qu, which existed during the Zhou dynasty in what is now Hubei province.
Quarry
Usage: English
From Middle English quarey "quarry", a topographic name for someone who lived near a stone quarry, or a metonymic occupational name for someone who worked in one.

Also Irish and Manx reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Guaire (see Mcquarrie).
Also English (of Norman origin) nickname for a thickset or portly man, from Anglo-Norman French quaré "square". Compare Carre

South
Usage: English
From Middle English south, hence a topographic name for someone who lived to the south of a settlement or a regional name for someone who had migrated from the south.
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