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Hollier Name Meaning
French and English: unflattering nickname from Old French holier ‘libertine lecher’ Middle English hol(i)er ‘adulterer fornicator; brothel keeper’. English: probably a variant of Huller ‘roofer tiler’ (see Hillier ). English: variant of Ollier from the Old French personal name Oillard (ancient Germanic Odilard Oilard from othil- ‘land possession’ + hard- ‘hard brave’). English: variant of Oyler .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Hillier, Holler, Holder, Toller, Collier, Huller, Heller, Hollen
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Holmes Name Meaning
English: either from the plural form of Holme or else a variant of Holme or Home with excrescent -s (see Holm ). Scottish: probably a habitational name from Holmes near Dundonald (Ayrshire) or possibly from another place so called in the barony of Inchestuir (Angus). Both placenames likely derive from the plural form of Middle English Older Scots holm ‘islet raised land in a marsh’ (see Holm ). Scottish and Irish: adopted for Scottish Gaelic and Irish Mac Thómais Mac Thómais (see McComb ). In parts of western Ireland Holmes is also a variant of Cavish from Gaelic Mac Thámhais another patronymic from Thomas . Early bearers in Ireland were probably immigrants from Scotland.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Holme, Hilmes, Holm, Hole, Holmer, Holness, Harmes, Toles, Homme
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Hullah Name Meaning
Variant of Ulley .
Ulley Name Meaning
From Ulley near Sheffield (WR Yorks) which is recorded as Olleie in 1086 and Ullay in the 13th century. The place-name probably derives from Old English ūle ‘owl’ + lēah ‘wood woodland clearing’. The derived surname sometimes developed a prosthetic H-. In the 18th and 19th centuries dialect pronunciation of final -ey produced the written forms Hulla(h) and Huller.in NR Yorks and northern WR Yorks (Burnsall and Bilton Ainsty are now in NR Yorks) it could alternatively derive from either of two places in Picardy called Ully-Saint-Georges (Oise) and Œuilly (Aisne) or from either of two neighbouring places in Haut-Marne NE France called Heuilley-Cotton and Heuilley-le Grand. The 1304 bearer in particular might have Norman ancestry.
Source:
The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
Similar surnames:
Ullah, Hallam, Halla, Fullam, Huller, Hallas, Bulla, Sulla, Hulan
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Humphries Name Meaning
English (West Midlands): variant of Humphrey with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
Humphrey Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English and Norman French personal name Humfrey from ancient Germanic Hunfrid Humfrid composed of the elements hūn- ‘bear cub’ + frithu ‘peace’. The name was borne by a 9th-century Christian saint bishop of Therouanne who had a certain following in England among Norman settlers.
Source
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Humphres, Humphreys, Umphrey, Mumphrey, Hughes, Umphress, Humphry
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Ingleby Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of several places called Ingleby (in Lincolnshire Yorkshire and Derbyshire). The placenames mean ‘farmstead of the English’ from Old English Engle ‘English’ (genitive plural Engla) + Old Norse bȳ ‘farmstead’.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Inglesby, Tingley, Ingle, Insley, Inglett, Pingley, Bingley, Dingley
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Iveson Name Meaning
English (N England): patronymic from the Middle English (Old French) personal name Ive + -son (see Ives ). The main source of the modern name appears to be a family from Langcliffe in Giggleswick (Yorkshire) though in Durham the name may be a variant of Iveston a habitational name from Iveston in Lanchester (Durham). The placename derives from the Old English personal name Ifa or Ifi + Old English stān ‘stone’.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Iverson, Oveson, Ives, Iversen, Ipson, Ison, Everson, Impson, Okeson
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Jamieson Name Meaning
Scottish: variant of Jamison . It probably originated in the pronunciation of James as Jamis but the Scottish preference for this form of Jamison will have been reinforced by association with Jamie the Scots pet form of James .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Jameson, Jamison, Jamerson, Amberson, Jemison, Jimmerson, Bateson
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Judson Name Meaning
English: patronymic from the Middle English personal name Judd + -son.
Judd Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English personal name Judde Jutte a pet form of Jordan . German: variant of Jude .
Jude Name Meaning
English (Cambridgeshire Norfolk and Suffolk): variant of Judd . The name is also occasionally (but probably rarely) from the Middle English personal name Jude an Old French vernacular form of the Biblical name Latin Judas (see 2 below). French: from Jude a vernacular form of the Hebrew personal name Yehuda ‘Judah’ (of unknown meaning) based on its Latin form Judas. In the Bible this is the name of Jacob's eldest son. It was not a popular name among Christians in medieval Europe because of the associations it had with Judas Iscariot the disciple who betrayed Christ for thirty pieces of silver. See also Judah . French and German: name for a Jew Old French and Middle High German jude (from Latin Iudaeus Greek Ioudaios from Hebrew Yehudi ‘member of the tribe of Judah’).
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Julson, Hudson, Jepson, Jesson, Jason, Janson, Eidson, Dodson, Burson
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Longster Name Meaning
Of uncertain origin; perhaps a locative name from Langscar in Malham (WR Yorks) which is recorded as Langester (or Langescer) in about 1190 but the medieval record is otherwise silent. possibly a variant of Longstaff .
Longstaff Name Meaning
English (mainly northeastern): variant of Langstaff .
Langstaff Name Meaning
English (mainly northeastern): nickname from Middle English lang ‘long’ + staf ‘staff’ perhaps a nickname for a bailiff or other officer of the law. Compare Longstaff .
Source:
The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
Similar surnames:
Sangster, Linster, Longaker, Oster, Fenster, Forster, Koster, Langner
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Lowis Name Meaning
English: variant of Lewis
Lewis Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English Old French personal name Lewis Leweis Lowis from ancient Germanic (originally West Frankish) Hludwig (itself from hlōd- ‘fame famous’ + wīg- ‘battle’). This was Latinized as Ludovicus and Chlodovisus which were gallicized as Clovis or Clouis French Louis. The name may also appear as Lawis Laweys Lawes by unrounding of the vowel of Lowis on the analogy of the variation between Low and Law as pet forms of Middle English Lourence alias Laurence. This surname is also very common among African Americans. See Laws 2 and compare Lawrence . Welsh: adopted for the Welsh personal name Llywelyn (see Llewellyn ). Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Lughaidh ‘son of Lughaidh’. This is one of the most common Old Irish personal names. It is derived from Lugh ‘brightness’ which was the name of a Celtic god. Americanized form of French Louis . Americanized form of various like-sounding Jewish surnames. Chinese: variant Romanization of the surnames 廖 (see Liao ) 羅 (see Luo ) 劉 (see Liu ).
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Lewin, Levis, Clewis, Lein, Remis, Leis, Lees, Reis, Levin, Leys
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts