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Davies Name Meaning
Welsh and English: variant of Davis a patronymic equivalent to Welsh ap Dafydd ‘Dafydd's son’. The name is especially numerous in south Wales. This form of the name probably shows the influence of Davy the common English form of the personal name David in the late medieval and early modern periods (see Davey ).
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Davie, Davids, Davis, Danis, Davino, David, Maves, Davi, Dawes
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Dodd Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English personal name Dodd(e) Dudd(e) Old English Dodd(a) Dudd(a) a name of uncertain origin which remained in fairly widespread and frequent use from Lincolnshire to Devon and from Essex to Lancashire in England until the 14th century. English: nickname from Middle English dod a word of uncertain meaning possibly a ‘lumpish thickset person’ (compare modern English dialect dod ‘bunch or heap’) or by extension a ‘foolish person’ (compare Middle English dode-mused ‘stupid’) or perhaps a derivative of dodden ‘to shave (the head) to trim (hair)’ hence ‘the hairless or close-cropped one’. English: possibly a modern variant of Daud or Dowd the former arising from the Middle English personal name Daud(e) an extended form of Daw and the latter from the Middle English personal name Doude perhaps a side-form of either Dodde or of Daude a pet form of Ralph . Irish: of English origin (see 1 above) taken to Sligo in the 16th century by a Shropshire family; also sometimes adopted by bearers of the Gaelic name Ó Dubhda (see Dowd ).
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Codd, Dowd, Doe, Gold, Todd, Loud, Hoad, Dodds, Sadd, Dodge
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Duxbury Name Meaning
English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): habitational name from Duxbury in Lancashire recorded in the early 13th century as D(e)ukesbiri from the genitive case of the Old English personal name Deowuc or Duc(c) (both of uncertain origin) + Old English burh ‘fort’ (see Burke ).
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Banbury, Bury, Alsbury, Sudbury, Hanbury, Danbury, Tilbury, Asbury
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Farling Name Meaning
Perhaps an altered form of Scottish and northern Irish Farland .
Farland Name Meaning
Altered form of French Ferland . Scottish and northern Irish: shortened form of McFarland .
Mcfarland Name Meaning
Irish (northern): variant of McFarlane .
Mcfarlane Name Meaning
Scottish and northern Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Pharthaláin a patronymic from the personal name Parthalán which is most probably from Latin Bartholomaeus (see Bartholomew ). Parthalán regularly shortened in speech to Parlán has also been Anglicized as Bartlett . Compare McPartland .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Farland, Marling, Harling, Darling, Arling, Fallin, Falin, Warling
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Feasby Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Faceby in Whorlton (North Yorkshire). The placename derives from the Old Norse personal name Feitr (genitive Feits) + bý ‘farmstead settlement’.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Clasby, Frisby, Nasby, Yearby, Cleasby, Asby, Feasel, Nesby, Keasey
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Finn Name Meaning
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Finn ‘descendant of Fionn’ a byname meaning ‘white’ or ‘fair-haired’; it is often found Anglicized as White . This name is borne by several families in the west of Ireland. English and Scottish: from the Middle English personal name Fin(n) (Old Norse Finnr Fin originally ‘Finn’) used both as a byname and as a short form of various compound names with this first element. English (Kent of Norman origin): variant of Finnis a habitational name from Fiennes Pas-de-Calais France. See Fines German: ethnic name for someone from Finland.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Kinn, Linn, Ginn, Rinn, Finne, Finan, Fina, Fink, Fino, Pinn
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Firth Name Meaning
English: topographic name from Middle English firthe frithe frethe ‘frith wood woodland’ also ‘hunting ground’ (whether or not wooded). These are forms of Old English firhthe (ge)fyrhthe ferhthe in which the awkward consonant cluster -rhth- was simplified by dropping medial -h- and sometimes metathesizing the -r-. In medieval Sowerbyshire Yorkshire and Derbyshire the friths were areas reserved for hunting so the surname there may have belonged to forest officials. Scottish: habitational name from Firth in Orkney.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Furth, Forth, Worth, Wirth, Fitz, Garth, North, Warth, Fitch, Mirto
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Hall Name Meaning
English Scottish Irish German Norwegian and Danish: from Middle English hall (Old English heall) Middle High German halle Old Norse hǫll all meaning ‘hall’ (a spacious residence) hence a topographic name for someone who lived in or near a hall or an occupational name for a servant employed at a hall. In some cases it may be a habitational name from any of the places called with this word which in some parts of Germany and Austria in the Middle Ages also denoted a salt mine. Hall is one of the commonest and most widely distributed of English surnames bearing witness to the importance of the hall as a feature of the medieval village. The English surname has been established in Ireland since the 14th century and according to MacLysaght has become numerous in Ulster since the 17th century. Swedish: ornamental or topographic name from hall ‘hall’ (a spacious residence) or a habitational name from a placename containing the element hall ‘rock’ (from Old Norse hallr). Chinese: variant Romanization of the surnames 何 and 賀 see He 1 and
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Hale, Ball, Wall, Fall, Hill, Halle, Hald, Hell, Halt, Gall
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Grange Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire) and French: topographic name or metonymic occupational name for someone who lived by or worked in a granary especially the farm manager from Middle English Old French grange (from Latin granica ‘granary barn’ from granum ‘grain’); or a French habitational name from any of the places called with this word for example in Ardèche and Jura. Redmonds points out that the English name was interchangeable with Granger . Compare French Degrange and Lagrange .
Granger Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin): occupational name for a farm bailiff responsible for overseeing the collection of rent in kind into the barns and storehouses of the lord of the manor. This official had the Anglo-Norman French title grainger Old French grangier from Late Latin granicarius a derivative of granica ‘granary’ (see Grange ). French: from Old French grangier (see 1 above) an occupational name for an owner of a granary or a status name for a tenant farmer a sharecropper.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Granger, Gange, Range, Grande, Orange, Ranger, Prange, Grand, Grace
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Hardisty Name Meaning
English: variant of Hardesty .
Hardesty Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire): habitational name from Hardisty Hill in Fewston (Yorkshire) from the Old English personal name Heardwulf (composed of the elements heard ‘hardy brave strong’ + wulf ‘wolf’) + Old English stīg ‘path narrow road’. Compare Hardester and Hardisty
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Harden, Harvey, Harley, Hardeman, Harness, Hasty, Harder, Harty
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts