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Gurney Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin):: habitational name from Gournay-en-Brai in Seine-Maritime in France. perhaps occasionally also a habitational name from Great Gornhay in Tiverton (Devon); see Garnsey .
Garnsey Name Meaning
English:: of Norman origin probably a habitational name from Great Gornhay in Tiverton (Devon). The placename denotes the enclosed land (Old English (ge)hæg) of a man named with the Old English personal name Gārmund (see Garman ). perhaps also a habitational name from Guernsey (Channel Islands) but evidence is needed to substantiate this. See also Guernsey .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Turney, Burney, Furney, Curley, Turner, Garney, Corney, Durley
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Hainsworth Name Meaning
English:: (Yorkshire): habitational name from Hainworth in Keighley Yorkshire named from the Old English personal name Hagena + Old English worth ‘enclosure’. The intrusive -s- was acquired by the late 15th century probably through false association with the Lancashire surname Ainsworth in 2 below. variant of Ainsworth in Lancashire. Names such as de Haynesworth and de Heynesworth occur in the surrounding area in the 14th century.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Ainsworth, Hawksworth, Hackworth, Wadsworth, Hemsworth, Unsworth
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Hardcastle Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Hardcastle in Bewerley (Yorkshire) from Middle English hard ‘hard tough’ + castel ‘castle fortress’. Hardcastle Garth originally a Quaker settlement near Harrogate took its name from its founder; likewise Hardcastle Crags in Yorkshire probably takes its name from the surname.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Hardacre, Castle, Hardesty, Harbottle, Harnage, Zarate, Hurdle
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Harper Name Meaning
English (Staffordshire) Scottish Irish (Antrim and Down) and Dutch: occupational name for a player on the harp from Middle English harper(e) ‘harper’ (Old English hearpere) and Middle Dutch harper herper. The harper was one of the most important figures of a medieval baronial hall especially in Scotland and northern England and the office of harper was sometimes hereditary. The Scottish surname is probably an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Chruiteir ‘son of the harper’ (from Gaelic cruit ‘harp’ ‘stringed instrument’). This surname has long been present in Ireland.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Harker, Harder, Happe, Hamper, Harrer, Harmer, Haver, Harer, Hafner
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Harrison Name Meaning
English (northern): from the Middle English personal name Harry or Herry + -son. These were the common pronunciations of Henry (see Harry ).
Harry Name Meaning
English (mainly south Wales and southwestern England): from the medieval personal name Harry a common form of Henry with assimilation of -nr- to -rr- and regular Middle English change of -er- to -ar-. In south Wales the surname is generally a post-medieval coinage in most cases not hereditary until the 18th or 19th century. French: from the ancient Germanic personal name Hariric composed of the elements hari heri ‘army’ + rīc ‘power(ful)’. Native American (e.g. Navajo): adoption of the English personal name Harry (see 1 above) as a surname.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Harbison, Harmison, Harris, Garrison, Marrison, Harvison, Hardison
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Hepworth Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): habitational name primarily from Hepworth (Yorkshire) or less likely from the place so named in Suffolk. The Yorkshire placename derives from an Old English personal name Heppa + Old English worth ‘enclosure’ while the Suffolk placename comes from Old English hēope ‘rose hip’ or hēopa ‘dog rose bramble’ + worth.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Hemsworth, Papworth, Keyworth, Pebworth, Cudworth, Haworth, Walworth
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Herron Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Harome (North Yorkshire) from Old English (æt thǣm) hārum ‘at the (gray) stones’ dative plural of hār ‘gray stone’. English and Scottish: nickname probably for a tall thin man with long legs from Old French hairon ‘heron’ Anglo-Norman French heron Middle English heiroun heyron herne heron. Compare Hearn and Heron . English (of Norman origin): habitational name from (Le) Héron in France (Seine-Maritime). English: sometimes a variant of Hearn . Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hEaráin ‘descendant of Earán’ a personal name from a diminutive of earadh ‘fear dread distrust’. Spanish (Herrón): probably a nickname from herrón a medieval game that required participants to hit an iron disk with a central hole in a nail driven into the ground.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Heron, Harron, Hearn, Marron, Perron, Herrin, Hernon, Hermon
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Hill Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived on or by a hill from Middle English hill hell hull ‘hill’ (Old English hyll). Compare Hiller . This surname is also very common among African Americans. English: possibly in some cases from the personal name Hille a pet form of some name such as Hilger or Hillary . German: from a short form of Hildebrand or any of a variety of other names male and female containing ancient Germanic hild ‘battle’ as the first element. Americanized form (translation into English) of Finnish Mäki ‘hill’ or of any of various other names formed with this element (see Maki ). Americanized form of various like-sounding Jewish surnames.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Gill, Will, Hild, Bill, Hell, Mill, Hils, Hall, Dill, Hilt
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Horner Name Meaning
English (North Yorkshire) and German: from Horn 1 with the agent suffix -er; used either as an occupational name for someone who made or sold small articles made of horn (Middle English hornere) a metonymic occupational name for someone who played a musical instrument made from the horn of an animal or a topographic name for someone who lived at a ‘horn’ of land. In the Middle Ages whole horns were used for many purposes: as drinking vessels as containers as wind instruments for sounding an alarm and for signalling to others (e.g. when hunting). Pieces of horn were used to make spoons buttons combs handles decorative tips for rods and other things. The horner's craft could include making musical horns as well as sheets of translucent horn for windows and for covering books. For example Thomas Hornar of Petergate in York was paid for ‘hornyng et naillyng’ the superscribed covers of books in York Minster library in 142 German (also Hörner): from any of various places called Horn referring to their location at a spur of land at a horn shaped piece of land. Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Horn 5.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Corner, Thorner, Horne, Borner, Berner, Hirner, Hober, Honer, Horter
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts