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Noble Name Meaning
English Scottish and French: status name or nickname from Middle English Old French noble ‘high-born distinguished illustrious’ (from Latin nobilis) denoting someone of lofty birth or character or someone who poses as a nobleman or perhaps also ironically someone of low station. The surname has been established in Ireland since the 13th century but was re-introduced in the 17th century and is now found mainly in Ulster. Compare French Lenoble . Americanized form of Jewish (Ashkenazic) and German Knöbel Knobel and Nobel. Spanish: nickname from noble ‘noble’ or ‘courteous kind’ (see 1 above).
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Doble, Coble, Nolle, Noblet, Nobbe, Noe, Molle, Roble, Sole, Hole
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Pawson Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire): patronymic from the Middle English personal name Paw a variant of Paul .
Paul Name Meaning
English French German Dutch Swedish West Indian (mainly Haiti also e.g. Saint Lucia) and African (mainly Nigeria and Tanzania): from the personal name Paul (from Latin Paulus ‘small’) which has always been popular in Christendom. It was the name adopted by the Pharisee Saul of Tarsus after his conversion to Christianity on the road to Damascus in about AD 3 He was a most energetic missionary to the Gentiles in the Roman Empire and played a very significant role in establishing Christianity as a major world religion. The name was borne also by numerous other early Christian saints. It is also occasionally borne by Jews; the reasons for this are not clear. In North America the English form of the surname has absorbed many cognates from other languages and their patronymics and other derivatives e.g. Greek Pavlis Slovenian Pavel and Pavlič (see Pavlic ) Polish Paweł (see Pawel ) and Pawlicki Assyrian/Chaldean Polous and Polus . In France this surname is most common in Brittany (see 2 below). Breton (mainly Finistère): from a Frenchified form of the personal name Paol Breton form of Paul . Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Phóil ‘son of Paul’. Compare McFall . Catalan (Paül): habitational name from any of several places called Paül. Spanish (Paúl): topographic name from paúl ‘marsh lagoon’. Basque: Castilianized form (Paúl) of a habitational name from Padul a place in Araba/Álava province Basque Country (Spain).
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Payson, Paxson, Rawson, Ranson, Anson, Polson, Papson, Dawson, Lawson
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Phillips Name Meaning
English Dutch North German and Jewish (western Ashkenazic): patronymic from the personal name Philip . In North America this surname has also absorbed cognates from other languages (see Philips ).
Philips Name Meaning
English Scottish North German Dutch and Jewish (Ashkenazic): patronymic from the personal name Philip . In North America this surname has also absorbed cognates from other languages for example Italian Filippi Polish Filipowicz and Slovenian Filipič (see Filip ). Compare Phillips .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Philip, Philips, Philipp, Phillipp, Philipson, Phillipps, Millis
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Pinkney Name Meaning
English: variant of Pinckney .
Pinckney Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Picquigny in Somme named with an ancient Germanic personal name Pincino (of obscure derivation) + the Latin locative suffix -acum.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Pickney, Pinney, Binkley, Penney, Pinckley, Hinkley, Pinkley
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

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
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

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