Sharley's Personal Name List

From an English place name meaning "ash enclosure" in Old English.

Originally a diminutive of Beck 1 or Beck 3.

Indicated a person who lived near a causeway, from Old French caucie.

Derived from French clou meaning "nail", referring to someone who made or sold nails.

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

Means "of the fountain" in Spanish.

Means "son of Luca 1".

Habitational name for a person from the town of Elsworth in Cambridgeshire. The town's name is derived from the masculine given name Ella (a short form of Old English names beginning with the elements ælf meaning "elf" or eald meaning "old") combined with worþ meaning "enclosure".

Topographic name derived from Old English meaning "from the end cottage".

From a place name meaning "fair ravine, fair cliff" in Old English.

Habitational name derived from a number of locations named Harlow, from Old English hær "rock, heap of stones" or here "army", combined with hlaw "hill".

Variant of Kelly 1.

Derived from Russian козёл (kozyol) meaning "male goat", probably used to denote a goatherd.

Variant of Kozłowski.

Originally a name for a person from Marlow in Buckinghamshire, England. The place name means "remnants of a lake" from Old English mere "lake" and lafe "remnants, remains". A notable bearer was the English playwright and poet Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593).

Occupational name for a trader in textiles, from Old French mercier, derived from Latin merx meaning "merchandise".

Means "blackbird", ultimately from Latin merula. The blackbird is a symbol of a naive person.

Derived from the given name Muriel.

Originally denoted one who came from a town of this name England, meaning "north farm".

Derived from the Old English given name Uhtric.

Derived from Old French pelletier "fur trader".

Originally derived from the name of a town in Lancashire, itself from Old Norse hryggr "ridge" and býr "farm, settlement".

Variant of Seabrook.

Name for a person who lived near the southern gate of a town or in a town named Southgate, from Old English suþ and gæt.

Means "son of Baldo".

From the given name Valerio.

Variant of Van Laar.

From the given name Vitale.

Patronymic from Serbo-Croatian Vlah meaning "Romanian, Wallachian".

Derived from an Old English place name meaning "hill belonging to Wine".