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Price Name Meaning
Welsh: Anglicized form of Welsh ap Rhys ‘son of Rhys’ (see Reece ). This is one of the commonest of Welsh surnames. It has also been established in Ireland since the 14th century. English: nickname from Middle English Old French pris ‘excellent noble highly valued (person)’. Americanized form of Jewish Preuss or Preis . In some cases also an American shortened and altered form of Ukrainian Prishchipenko: from a nickname based on pryshchepa ‘grafted stalk’ with the diminutive suffix -enko having in this case a patronymic function.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Brice, Prime, Grice, Pryce, Trice, Prince, Pride, Place, Pipe, Rice
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Reuter Name Meaning
German:: derivative of Middle High German (ge)riute ‘clearing’ hence a topographic name for someone who lived in a clearing or an occupational name for a clearer of woodland. Reut(e) and Reit are frequent elements of placenames indicating location in a forest or former forest. unflattering nickname from Middle High German riutære ‘footpad highwayman’; later possibly an occupational name for a mounted soldier (see Reiter ).
Reiter Name Meaning
German:: occupational name for a mounted soldier or knight from Middle Low German rider Middle High German rīter ‘rider’. It is also found in some central European countries e.g. in Czechia and Slovenia. Compare Raiter . variant of Reuter habitational name for someone from any of various places in Germany and Austria called Reit or Reith (see Reith ).
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Reiter, Kreuter, Rester, Nester, Reiser, Reder, Reusser, Tretter
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Salisbury Name Meaning
English (Lancashire): habitational name primarily from Salesbury in Blackburn (Lancashire) but also occasionally from Salisbury (Wiltshire). The Lancashire placename derives from Old English salh ‘willow sallow’ + burg ‘fortress’ while the Wiltshire placename arises from a shortened form of the Celtic placename Sorviodunum (from an unknown initial element + Celtic dūno- ‘fort’). In the Old English period the second element was dropped and Sorvio- (of unexplained etymology) became Searo- in Old English as the result of folk etymological association the Old English word searu ‘trick’; to this an explanatory burh ‘fortress manor town’ was added. The city is recorded in the Domesday Book as Sarisberie; the change of -r- to -l- is the result of later dissimilation.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Sainsbury, Malsbury, Alsbury, Amesbury, Marksbury, Pillsbury, Asbury
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Salt Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Salt (Staffordshire) from Old English selte ‘salt pit’. Occasionally the name may be a nickname for a producer or seller of salt from Middle English salt ‘salt’ (compare Salter ) but evidence is lacking. Native American (Navajo): from a translation into English of the name of the Navajo clan Áshįįhi ‘Salt People’.
Salter Name Meaning
English: occupational name for an extractor or seller of salt (a precious commodity in medieval times) from Middle English salter(e) ‘producer or seller of salt’. There may have been some post-medieval confusion with Souter ; see also Saltman . English: occupational name from Middle English sautreour ‘minstrel player of the psaltery (a stringed musical instrument)’ (Old French sautere ‘psaltery’ Latin psalterium Greek psaltērion from psallein ‘to sound’). Compare Rutter . German: northern variant of Salzer . Americanized form of French Salois.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Sale, Salz, Salts, Salb, Sult, Halt, Salter, Sala, Salm, Sol
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Sansam Name Meaning
See Sampson .
Sampson Name Meaning
English Welsh and Jewish: variant of Samson . The -p- was introduced in the Greek transliteration of the Hebrew name Shimshon. English: of Norman origin a habitational name from any of the French places called Saint-Samson (Seine-Maritime Calvados) including Saint-Samson-de-Bonfosse (Manche) and Saint-Samson-de-la-Roque (Eure) so called from the dedication of their churches to Saint Samson of Dol the Welsh bishop (see Samson ). Americanized form of French Breton German and Dutch Samson . Greek: from the personal name Sampson (see 1 above) or an American shortened form of any of various patronymics derived from this name e.g. Sampsonidis and Sampsonoglou.
Source:
The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Sansom, Salaam, Balsam, Sanna, Hannam, Sandal, Bansal, Canham, Sanda
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Schofield Name Meaning
English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): habitational name from Scholefield in Rochdale (Lancashire) from Middle English scale sc(h)ole ‘hut shed’ (Old Norse skáli) + feld ‘field open country’.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Sheffield, Ashfield, Hatfield, Sherfield, Chatfield, Schoenfeld
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Sell Name Meaning
English: from Middle English selle ‘shelter for animals shieling’ (Old English (ge)sell) a rough hut of the type normally occupied by animals hence a topographic name for someone who lived in a hut like this. It may also have been used as a nickname for a herdsman. German: variant of Selle . German: metonymic occupational name from Middle High German sel ‘rope’ for a rope maker. Americanized form of Hungarian Széll: topographic name for someone who lived in a spot exposed to the wind from szél ‘wind’. Americanized form of Jewish (from Hungary) Széll: adoption of Hungarian Széll (see 4 above) either as a calque of the formerly used German-based surname or because the Hungarian surname (or word) has some sounds in common with the original surname.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Bell, Fell, Soll, Pell, Tell, Seal, Selle, Hell, Dell, Kell
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Shaw Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): from Middle English s(c)hawe s(c)haghe ‘small wood grove thicket’ (Old English sceaga). The surname may be topographic for someone who lived in or by a small wood or habitational for someone from any of the many places so named. Shaw and Shawe are most frequent in Lancashire and Yorkshire where Shaw in Oldham (Lancashire) may be a principal source of the surname. The English and Lowland Scottish surname was also established in Ireland in the 17th century. Scottish: shortened form of various surnames from the Gaelic personal name Sitheach derived from sithech ‘wolf’. Irish (Down and Antrim): adopted for Ó Síthigh ‘descendant of Sítheach’ a personal name based on sítheach ‘peaceful’. Compare Sheehy . Americanized form of some similar (like-sounding) Jewish surname. Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 邵 see Shao
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Haw, Shan, Shad, Sas, Sham, Hew, Shao, Shean, Shah, Thaw
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Shires Name Meaning
English (West Yorkshire):: habitational name perhaps from Shiregreen in Sheffield (Yorkshire) or in many instances almost certainly from Skier's Hall in Nether Hoyland (Yorkshire). The latter is the source of the surname de Skiris which was sometimes changed to Shires. The placename Shiregreen derives from Old English scīr ‘region district’ with the later addition of Middle English grene ‘green grassy place’; the origin of Skier's Hall is uncertain. in Lancashire the Midlands and southern England a variant of Shire with post-medieval excrescent -s.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Spires, Swires, Shire, Hines, Shirts, Sires, Stires, Spikes, Shirer
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Simmons Name Meaning
English (southeastern): variant of Simon with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
Simon Name Meaning
English (Lancashire) French Walloon Breton German Dutch Hungarian northern Italian and Jewish (Ashkenazic); Spanish (Simón); Czech and Slovak (mainly Šimon); Slovenian Croatian and Rusyn (from Slovakia) (also Šimon): from the Biblical personal name Hebrew Shim‘on which is probably derived from the Hebrew verb sham‘a ‘to hearken’. In the Vulgate and in many vernacular versions of the Old Testament this is usually rendered Simeon . In the Greek New Testament however the name occurs as Simōn as a result of assimilation to the pre-existing Greek byname Sīmōn (from sīmos ‘snub-nosed’). Both Simon and Simeon were in use as personal names in western Europe from the Middle Ages onward. In Christendom the former was always more popular at least in part because of its associations with the apostle Simon Peter the brother of Andrew. In Britain there was also confusion from an early date with Anglo-Scandinavian forms of Sigmund(r) or Sigmund (see Siegmund ) a name whose popularity was reinforced at the Conquest by the Norman form Simund. In North America this surname has also absorbed cognates from other languages e.g. Italian Simone Polish Szymon Albanian Simoni and Assyrian/Chaldean or Arabic Shimun Shamon or Shamoun and also their derivatives (see examples at Simons ). See also Shimon .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Simon, Timmons, Kimmons, Simos, Tummons, Simons, Simoes, Simeone
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts