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Ellison Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English personal name Ellis (Old Testament Elijah) + -son. In the US this surname (in any of the three possible senses; see also 2 and 3 below) is also established among African Americans. English: from the Middle English Old French female personal name Elissent Elisant ancient Germanic Elisind. Scottish: sometimes a post-medieval variant of Allison which is mainly concentrated in northern England and southwestern Scotland. There is a similar Scottish variation between Alison and Elison as female personal names. Americanized form of some original Jewish (Ashkenazic) surname (most likely based on Yiddish form of the Biblical personal name Elijah).
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Allison, Elliston, Elison, Jellison, Ellickson, Kellison, Elkin
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Kay Name Meaning
English: nickname from northern Middle English ka kae kay ‘jackdaw’ from Old Norse ká or Old English cā. See also Daw . English: nickname from Middle English cai kay kei ‘left-handed clumsy’. English: occasionally perhaps an occupational name from Middle English kai(e) kei(e) ‘key’ applied to a maker of keys (compare Kear ) or alluding to the office of keeper or bearer of keys but clear evidence for this is wanting. English: topographic name for someone living or working on or near a quay Middle English kay(e) key(e) keay Old French kay cay. English: from a Middle English personal name which figures in Arthurian legend. It is found in Old Welsh as Cai Middle Welsh Kei and is ultimately from the Latin personal name Gaius. Scottish Irish and Manx: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic McKay .9: Shortened form of any of various names beginning with the letter K-.7: German Danish and Dutch: from the personal name Kay which is of uncertain origin most likely as a variant of Key a pet form of personal names like Gerard Gerhardt and Gerrit (see Gerrits ). This surname is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine). Compare Kai .8: Dutch and North German: topographic name for someone living by a quayside from Dutch kaai ‘quay’ German Kai (which was borrowed from the Dutch).10: Chinese: variant Romanization of the surnames 紀 (see Ji ) and 祁 (see Qi ).1 Chinese: possibly from Cantonese form of some Chinese names 奇 (meaning ‘special’) 琦 (meaning ‘outstanding’) or 基 (meaning ‘base’) which were monosyllabic personal names or part of disyllabic personal names of some early Chinese immigrants in the US.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022

Newall Name Meaning
Variant of Newhall or Newell .
Newhall Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Newhall in Northwich or Newhall near Nantwich (both in Cheshire) New Hall in Lancashire Newhall in Bradford (Yorkshire) Newhall in Staffordshire or from any of numerous other places in England with the common name Newhall or New Hall. The placenames derive from Middle English neue ‘new’ + halle ‘large residence hall’ (Old English nīwe hall).
Source:
The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Newhall, Newell, Neall, Newill, Sewall, Wall, Ewald, Jewell, Neal
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Allen Name Meaning
English and Scottish: from the Middle English Old French personal name Alain Alein (Old Breton Alan) from a Celtic personal name of great antiquity and obscurity. In England the personal name is now usually spelled Alan the surname Allen; in Scotland the surname is more often Allan. From 1139 it was common in Scotland where the surname also derives from Gaelic Ailéne Ailín from ail ‘rock’. The present-day frequency of the surname Allen in England and Ireland is partly accounted for by the popularity of the personal name among Breton followers of William the Conqueror by whom it was imported first to Britain and then to Ireland. Saint Alan(us) was a 5th-century bishop of Quimper who was a cult figure in medieval Brittany. Another Saint Al(l)an was a Cornish or Breton saint of the 6th century to whom a church in Cornwall is dedicated. English: occasionally perhaps from the rare Middle English femaje personal name Aline (Old French Adaline Aaline) a pet form of ancient Germanic names in Adal- especially Adalheidis (see Allis ). French: variant of Allain a cognate of 1 above and in North America (also) an altered form of this.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Allan, Ellen, Almen, Allyn, Alden, Allman, Alley, Kallen, ArlenF
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Annakin Name Meaning
From the Middle English female personal name *Annikin a plausible but unrecorded pet form of Anis (compare Agnes Annis ).perhaps a variant of Hankin with loss of initial H- and insertion of the link vowel -i- or -a-.
Source:
The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
Similar surnames:
Annan, Annin, Hannafin, Hankin, Makin, Mannan, Anania, Annis, Ansari
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Wright Name Meaning
English and Scottish: occupational name for a craftsman or maker of machinery mostly in wood of any of a wide range of kinds from Middle English and Older Scots wriht wright wricht writh write (Old English wyrhta wryhta) ‘craftsman’ especially ‘carpenter joiner’. The term is found in various combinations (for example Cartwright and Wainwright ) but when used in isolation it often referred to a builder of windmills or watermills. This surname is also very common among African Americans.
Source
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Bright, Knight, Wight, Slight, Light, Arkwright, High, Upright, Wicht
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Ashby Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of numerous places in northern and eastern England called Ashby from Old Norse askr ‘ash’ (or in one instance possibly from the Old Norse personal name Aski) + bȳ ‘farm’.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Asby, Corby, Kirby, Ashley, Ash, Busby, Askey, Aaby, Nasby, Asher
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Atkinson Name Meaning
English (northern): patronymic from the personal name Atkin or Adkin pet forms of Adam.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Watkinson, Adkinson, Atkins, Hankinson, Hawkinson, Allinson
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Ackroyd Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire): topographic name from northern Middle English ake ‘oak’ + royd ‘clearing’.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
Similar surnames:
Oldroyd, Holroyd, Ackley, Ackland, Cross, Mackrell, Packwood, Curd
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts