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Reynard Name Meaning
Altered form of Rinehart a surname of German origin (see Reinhardt ). Compare Rinard . Americanized form of German Reinhardt . French and English (Yorkshire): variant of Renard .
Reinhardt Name Meaning
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from a personal name composed of the ancient Germanic elements ragin ‘counsel’ + hard ‘hardy brave strong’.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022

Lumley Name Meaning
English (northern): habitational name from Lumley a place in County Durham so named from Old English lum(m) ‘pool’ (see Lum ) + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
Lum Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Lumb in Lancashire. In some instances the name may be topographic for someone who lived by a pool Middle English lum(m). English: variant of Lamb . Chinese: variant Romanization of the surnames 林 (see Lin ) and 藍 (see Lan ) based on their Cantonese pronunciations.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Plumley, Durley, Dudley, Chumley, Hulley, Loxley, Bulley, Comley
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Myers Name Meaning
Irish (Tipperary Limerick and Waterford): Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Meidhir ‘descendant of Meidhir’ with post-medieval excrescent -s. Meidhir is a personal name based on meidhir ‘mirth’. English (northern): variant of Myer with post-medieval excrescent -s. English (northern): habitational name from one or more of the minor placenames derived from Middle English mire ‘marsh’ (Old Norse mýrr) in the plural form such as Melmerby Mire in Melmerby or Mires in Docker (both Cumbria). Americanized form of German and Dutch Meyers or Mayers and also of Meyer or Mayer with excrescent -s.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Meyers, Mayers, Miers, Myer, Ayers, Moyers, Pyers, Juers, Byers
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Brewis Name Meaning
English:: (of Norman origin): habitational name from Briouze in Orne. (Northumberland and Durham): topographic name or nickname from Middle English breuhous ‘brewery’ (literally ‘brew house’).
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Brewin, Rewis, Reis, Lewis, Regis, Brewer, Preis, Brew, Kreis, Remis
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Vint Name Meaning
English and Scottish: variant of Went .
Went Name Meaning
Danish and German: variant of Wente . English: topographic name from Middle English went(e) ‘passage path way’. English: perhaps occasionally from the river Went (Yorkshire). The river name may mean ‘the pleasant stream’ from Proto-Welsh wĭnet or wĭnēd.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Wint, Vitt, Vine, Ping, Lint, Vina, Vento, Hino, Vink, Want
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Peck Name Meaning
English: variant of Speake with loss of initial S- (or perhaps vice versa). English: variant of Peak . English: perhaps occasionally a variant of Petch itself a variant of Peach . Irish: variant of Peak 6. South German: variant of Beck . It is also found in Poland (compare Pek ). North German and Dutch: metonymic occupational name for someone who prepared or sold pitch from Middle Low German pek Middle Dutch pec pic.7: Americanized or Germanized form of Hungarian Pék Croatian and Slovenian Pek 1 ‘baker’.8: Americanized form of Czech or Polish Pek
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Pick, Beck, Peek, Pech, Puck, Heck, Speck, Pack, Seck, Peak
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Goodall Name Meaning
English (mainly Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire):: metonymic occupational name from Middle English god(e) ‘good’ + ale ‘ale’; perhaps denoting an innkeeper or tan ale taster. An ale taster was a manorial or borough court official appointed to regulate the quality of ale sold by inns and alewives especially with the duty of preventing the sale of sour or watered-down ale. alternatively it may be a habitational name from Gowdall near Snaith in Yorkshire. This place was named in Old English with golde ‘marigold’ + halh ‘nook recess’.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Woodall, Foxall, Gornall, Dowdall, Good, Gorrell, Goodsell, Goodwill
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Ridsdale Name Meaning
Probably from Redesdale rather than from Ridsdale (both Northumb). Redesdale is recorded as Redesdale in 1075 and Riddesdale in 1203 and derives from the river-name Rede (genitive Redes itself from Old English rēad ‘red’) + Old Scandinavian dalr ‘valley’.
Source:
The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
Similar surnames:
Dinsdale, Ragsdale, Dimsdale, Riddle, Hinsdale, Tisdale, Riddell
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Bolton Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of numerous places in northern England named Bolton (Lancashire Northumberland Westmorland and Yorkshire) or from Boulton in Derbyshire and East Lothian in Scotland from Old English bothl ‘dwelling house’ (see Bold ) + tūn ‘enclosure settlement’.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Colton, Holton, Bilton, Tolton, Belton, Booton, Banton, Milton
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Bingley Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Bingley in Yorkshire recorded in Domesday Book as Bingelei from the Old English personal name Bynna + -inga ‘of the people of’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’ or alternatively Old English bing ‘hollow’ + -inga + lēah.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Dingley, Tingley, Lindley, Bickley, Kinsley, Brinkley, Binkley, Ingle
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts