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Bickerdike Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire): perhaps a topographic name from Middle English bi ker dik ‘by the marsh ditch’ or biker dik ‘bee-keeper's ditch’ or ‘dispute ditch’ in the latter case a compound of biker ‘quarrel dispute’ + dik ‘ditch’ denoting someone who lived by a disputed boundary ditch.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Beckerdite, Bicker, Pickerill, Pickering, Bickerton, Bickert, Berdine
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Bottomley Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): habitational name from a place in Yorkshire named Bottomley from Old English botm ‘valley bottom’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Ottley, Betterley, Bromley, Batley, Thomley, Boxley, Bodley, Bartley
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Bowes Name Meaning
English (northern): habitational name from Bowes (formerly in North Yorkshire now in County Durham) or from some other place so called the placename being derived from the plural of Old English boga ‘bow’ here referring to bends in a river. Alternatively a topographic name for someone who lived ‘(at the) arches or bridge’. See Bow English: variant of Bow with excrescent -s. Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Buadhaigh (see Bogue ).
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Bow, Bower, Bowen, Mewes, Boden, Bowns, Bogen, Howes, Lowes, Towers
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Brotherton Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Brotherton in North Yorkshire and occasionally from the now lost Brotherton in Hacheston Suffolk; both are named with Old English brōthor ‘brother’ or the Old Norse personal name Bróthir + Old English tūn ‘farmstead enclosure’.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Winterton, Atherton, Brother, Netherton, Brierton, Brenton
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Brown Name Meaning
English Scottish and Irish: generally a nickname referring to the color of the hair or complexion Middle English br(o)un from Old English brūn or Old French brun. This word is occasionally found in Old French Middle English and Old Norse as a personal name or byname (Middle English personal name Brun Broun ancient Germanic Bruno Old English Brūn or possibly Old Norse Brúnn or Brúni). Brun- was also an ancient Germanic name-forming element. Some instances of Old English Brūn as a personal name may therefore be short forms of compound names such as Brūngar Brūnwine etc. As a Scottish and Irish name it sometimes represents a translation of Gaelic Donn (see below). Brown (including in the senses below) is the fourth most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans and Native Americans (see also 5 below). Irish and Scottish: adopted for Ó Duinn (see Dunn ) or for any of the many Irish and Scottish Gaelic names containing the element donn ‘brown-haired’ (also meaning ‘chieftain’) for example Donahue . Irish: phonetic Anglicization of Mac an Bhreitheamhnaigh; see Breheny . Americanized form (translation into English or assimilation) of various European surnames meaning ‘brown’ or derived from a word meaning ‘brown’ including the like-sounding German and Jewish surname Braun which is by far most common among them Jewish Bron and Slovenian Erjavec . Native American: translation into English and shortening of a personal name composed of a word meaning ‘brown’. In many cases however this surname was chosen because it is a one of the most common English surnames in North America (see 1 above).
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Brow, Crown, Brun, Bruin, Braun, Bjorn, Brin, Lown, Rohn, Biron
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Campbell Name Meaning
Scottish: nickname from Gaelic cam ‘crooked bent’ + beul ‘mouth’. As a result of folk etymology the surname was often represented in Latin documents as de bello campo ‘of the fair field’ which led to the name sometimes being ‘translated’ into Anglo-Norman French as Beauchamp . Irish (North Armagh): adopted for Gaelic Mac Cathmhaoil ‘son of Cathmhaol’ (literally ‘battle chief’): see Caulfield and Cowell . English: variant of Camel under the influence of the Scottish name (see 1 above).
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Cambell, Capelle, Castell, Chappell, Cantwell, Carnell, Corbell
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Carr Name Meaning
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Ó Carra ‘descendant of Carra’ a personal name from the adjective corr ‘pointed’ explained as meaning ‘spear’. As an Ulster surname Carr was often confused with Scottish Kerr . Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Mac Giolla Chathair a Donegal name meaning ‘son of Giolla Cathair’ or ‘the servant (i.e. devotee) of Saint Cathar’. Cathar was a priest and bishop otherwise unknown. Irish: in Galway a shortened Anglicized form of Mac Giolla Chéire see Keary . English (northern) and Scottish: variant of Kerr .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Barr, Cart, Corr, Garr, Darr, Carn, Card, Carp, Sarr, Carl
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Clough Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): topographic name for someone who lived near a precipitous slope Middle English clo(u)gh clou clew (Old English clōh) ‘ravine steep-sided valley’ or a habitational name from a place called with this word for example in Lancashire Cumbria or Yorkshire. English: in the East Midlands East Anglia and southeastern England probably more often a variant of Clow .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Slough, Plough, Crouch, Cloud, Couch, Loud, Louth, Bough, Rough
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Conoal Name Meaning
Historically, surnames evolved as a way to sort people into groups - by occupation, place of origin, clan affiliation, patronage, parentage, adoption, and even physical characteristics (like red hair). Many of the modern surnames in the dictionary can be traced back to Britain and Ireland.
Similar surnames
Jonas, Donat, Conway, Pool, Konrad, Monday, Knoll, Neal, Bono, Noel