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Marshall Name Meaning
English: usually an occupational name ‘farrier’ occasionally a status name ‘chief official of a royal household or court; a high officer of state’ from Middle English mareshal and Old French maresc(h)al. An even wider range of meanings is found in some other languages: compare for example Polish Marszałek (see Marszalek ). This name has been established in Ireland since the 13th century. It is also borne by Jews presumably as an Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish surnames. Americanized form of German Marschall . Americanized form of French Mercier .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Marschall, Marchal, Parshall, Marszalek, Marshal, Minshall, Marchand
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Mawson Name Meaning
English:: patronymic from Maw metronymic from a form of Maude
Maw Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire and Lincolnshire): from Middle English Maw(e) a pet form of the Anglo-Norman French and Middle English personal name Maheu (see Matthew ). Alternative derivation of Middle English Mawe from an Old English personal name Māwa is theoretically possible in northern England. Compare Mew . English (Yorkshire and Lincolnshire): occasionally a variant of Mowe . English (Yorkshire and Lincolnshire): topographic name meaning either ‘(dweller by) the meadow’ from an otherwise unrecorded Middle English word mawe mowe ‘meadow’ (attested in the second element of the Old English placename Dunmow Essex) or ‘(dweller by) the wet hollow’ from Middle English mawe ‘stomach’ (Old English maga) used topographically to denote a depression which collects water. See also Mowe . Burmese: from a personal name usually forming part of a compound name from maw ‘distinguished’. — Note: Since Burmese do not have hereditary surnames this name was registered as such only after immigration of its bearers to the US.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Malson, Lawson, Matson, Mayson, Pawson, Jason, Dawson, Madsen, Mason
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Matthews Name Meaning
English and Irish (Ulster and County Louth): patronymic from the personal name Matthew . In North America this surname has absorbed various cognates from other languages such as German Matthäus (from the personal name Matthäus from Latin Matthaeus) and Slovenian Matavž (from an obsolete vernacular form of the personal name Matevž from Latin Matthaeus). Compare Mathews . Irish: Anglicized form of Mac Mathghamhna (see McMahon ).
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Matthew, Mathews, Mathes, Matthes, Mattes, Matthey, Mathew, Matthias
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Meadus Name Meaning
In ancient Anglo-Saxon England, the ancestors of the Meadus surname lived in or near a meadow. The surname Meadus is derived from the Old English words mæd and mædwe, which both mean meadow. The surname Meadus belongs to the class of topographic surnames, which were given to people who resided near physical features such as hills, streams, churches, or types of trees.
Source:
https://www.houseofnames.com/meadus-family-crest
Similar surnames:
Readus, Meads, Means, Maus, Melhus, Matus, Meas, Mead, Mearns, Meader
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Mennell Name Meaning
See Meynell .
Meynell Name Meaning
From one of the French places named Mesnil from Old French mesnil (Latin *mansionile a diminutive of mansio ‘abode habitation’) used of the country domain where a noble lived with his family and retainers. As a surname it may also be used of a member of the household retainer. Some of the later bearers listed below may belong to (2). from the Continental Germanic female personal name Maginhild itself from *magin- ‘power’ + *hild- ‘battle’.
Source:
The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
Similar surnames:
Fennell, Kernell, Tennell, Pesnell, Meixell, Monell, Marnell, Meinel
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Milton Name Meaning
English and Scottish: habitational name from one or other of the many places called Milton or sometimes Middleton (see Middleton ) and occasionally Melton (see Melton ) most of which derive from Old English middel ‘middle’ or myln ‘mill’ + tūn ‘farmstead estate’.
Middleton Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the places so called. In over thirty instances from many different areas the name is from Old English midel ‘middle’ + tūn ‘enclosure settlement’. However Middleton on the Hill near Leominster in Herefordshire appears in Domesday Book as Miceltune the first element clearly being Old English micel ‘large’ ‘great’ (see Middlebrook ). Middleton Baggot and Middleton Priors in Shropshire have early spellings that suggest gem̄thhyll (from gem̄th ‘confluence’ + hyll ‘hill’) + tūn as the origin. This surname is also found in Scotland and Ireland. In the US it is also established among African Americans.
Melton Name Meaning
English (northern): habitational name from any of various places for example in Leicestershire Lincolnshire Norfolk and Yorkshire all of which have the same origin as Middleton with Old English middel replaced by its Old Norse equivalent methal after the Scandinavian settlement of northern and eastern England.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Mitchell Name Meaning
English and Scottish: from the vernacular pronunciation in Middle English and Older Scots of the personal name Michael . See Michelson . English and Scottish: nickname for a big man from Middle English michel mechel muchel ‘big’. Irish (County Connacht): surname adopted as equivalent of Mulvihill .
Michelson Name Meaning
English (Lincolnshire): patronymic from the Middle English personal name Michel (i.e. Michael see Mitchell ) + -son. Compare Michaelson . Americanized form of North German Danish Norwegian and Dutch Michelsen and of various other Scandinavian and North German cognates (see Michaelson and Mickelson ). Flemish and Dutch: patronymic from the personal name Michel (see Michael ). This surname is very rare in Belgium and the Netherlands. Jewish (Ashkenazic): patronymic from the Yiddish personal name Mikhl (see Michael ).
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Kitchell, Michel, Michelle, Patchell, Winchell, Mitch, Witcher
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Mudd Name Meaning
English:: from Middle English Modde a pet form of the Latin female name Modesta (Old French Modeste). This was an exceptionally rare personal name in medieval England and was hardly less so in medieval France where the male use of Old French Modeste (from Latin Modestus) is better evidenced but quite uncommon. from Middle English Mod(de) Mud(de) pet forms of Old English or ancient Germanic male personal names beginning with Mōd- ‘courage’ though these were also rare.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Mund, Budd, Kidd, Codd, Mould, Cudd, Rudd, Mula, Budde, Rudi
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Murrell Name Meaning
English: variant of Merrill .
Merrill Name Meaning
Welsh and English: from a female personal name of Celtic origin found in Welsh as Meriel and Meryl and in Irish as Muirgheal earlier Muirgel (‘sea-bright’). English: habitational name from one or more of the many places whose names derive from Middle English mirie merie murie ‘merry pleasant’ (Old English myrge) + hill hell hull ‘hill’ (Old English hyll) including two places called Merry Hill in Staffordshire and a third in Hertfordshire.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Merrick, Merritt, Grill, Cerrillo, Perrell, Merriam, Parrill, Perrin
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Newby Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places in northern England named with Old English nīwe ‘new’ (Middle English newe) + Old Norse bȳ ‘village settlement’.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Newey, Nerby, Nesby, Welby, Denby, Selby, Beeby, New, Nasby, Melby
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts