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Bowhill Name Meaning
From one of several small places so named e.g. those in Selkirks or in Auchterderran (Fife). For the probable sense compare Bowden
Similar surnames:
Coghill, Cowgill, Bothell, Bowell, Broyhill, Polhill, Cohill, Tohill
Bowden Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of several places called Bowden or Bowdon. Bowden in Devon and Derbyshire and Bowdon in Cheshire are named with Old English boga ‘bow’ + dūn ‘hill’ i.e. ‘hill shaped like a bow’; one in Leicestershire (Bugedone in Domesday Book) comes according to Ekwall from the Old English personal name Būga (masculine) or Bucge (feminine) + dūn. There are also Scottish places of this name but there are comparatively few bearers of the surname Bowden north of the border. In England the surname is found most frequently in Lancashire and in the West Country. In Devon and Cornwall there has been some confusion with the Norman personal name Baldwin . English: topographic name for someone who lived at the top of a hill from Middle English buve dun ‘above the hill’ (Old English būfan dūne as in the placename Bowden Wiltshire). Scottish: habitational name from Bowden in Roxburghshire named from Old English bōthl ‘dwelling-house’ + Old English denu ‘valley’. Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Buadáin ‘descendant of Buadán’ an Old Irish personal name of uncertain etymology. English: variant of Bawden
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Howden, Cowden, Boden, Bogdan, Burden, Rowden, Bowes, Dowden, Borden
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Bradley Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the many places throughout England named Bradley from Old English brād ‘broad’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. Scottish: habitational name from Braidlie in Roxburghshire. Irish (Ulster): adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Ó Brolcháin ‘descendant of Brolacháin’ a diminutive of the personal name Brólach compare Brawley . This was a learned family.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Badley, Bramley, Radley, Brailey, Bradney, Barley, Crawley, Bailey
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Brash Name Meaning
Scottish: probably a nickname for an impetuous person from northern English dialect brasche ‘rash impetuous’ (associated with brasche ‘assault attack’ a word of imitative origin). Americanized form of German Braasch or Brasch . Americanized form of Polish Braś (see Bras ).
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Rash, Brush, Brass, Bras, Bash, Brosh, Blash, Basa, Brack, Bratt
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Bray Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the places in Berkshire and Devon. The former is probably named with Old French bray ‘marsh’ the latter from the Cornish element bre ‘hill’. English: perhaps a topographic name from northern Middle English bra ‘steep (river) bank’ or ‘brow of a hill’ denoting someone who lived at such a place. English (of Norman origin): habitational name from any of several places in Normandy or Picardy called Bray (Eure Calvados Aisne Somme); see 6. English: variant of Braye . Irish: from Ó Breaghdha denoting a descendant of a native of Bregia a territory in Meath. French: habitational name from (Le) Bray the name of several places in various parts of France named with Old French brai ‘mud mire’ (from Late Latin bracium a word of Gaulish origin). Compare Brais and Dubray .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Gray, Pray, Wray, Ray, Berry, Bay, Bras, Dray, Fray, Bry
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Brooke Name Meaning
English: variant of Brook which preserves a trace of the Old English dative singular case originally used after a preposition (e.g. ‘at the brook’).
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Brookes, Brook, Brooks, Rooke, Crooke, Broome, Brooker, Rook, Brock
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Budd Name Meaning
English: from an Old English byname Budda which was applied to a thickset or plump person. Alternatively a nickname from Middle English budde ‘bud swelling’ with the same meaning as the Old English byname. German: variant of Budde and in North America possibly also an altered form of this. This surname is very rare in Germany.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Rudd, Budde, Mudd, Bird, Bald, Dodd, Buda, Kidd, Codd, Cudd
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Burnett Name Meaning
Scottish and Irish (Tyrone and Antrim): descriptive nickname of Norman origin from Old French burnete a diminutive of brun ‘brown’ (see Brown ) or possibly in some instances a metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of burnete a high quality woolen cloth originally dark brown in color. Probably also an altered form of English Barnett . In some cases also an altered form of French Burnet ; compare Burnette .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Burnette, Burdett, Bernett, Dunnett, Gurnett, Burnet, Burkett
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Butterwick Name Meaning
English (mainly Yorkshire): habitational name from any of several places in northern England called Butterwick for example in County Durham Lincolnshire North Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire named in Old English as ‘the outlying farm where butter was made’ (from butere ‘butter’ + wīc ‘farmstead’). Compare Butterick and Buttrick . Americanized form of German Butterweck: metonymic occupational name for a baker of fine (white) breads etc. from Middle High German buter ‘butter’ + wecke ‘roll biscuit’.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Buttrick, Berwick, Utterback, Burwick, Butrick, Buttermore, Butter
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Calderbank Name Meaning
Unexplained; the distribution suggests an association with Calderbrook and Caldermoor in Rochdale (Lancs) but no place of this name is known in Lancs. Calderbank (Lanarks) appears irrelevant because the surname is not found in Scotland.alternatively an alteration of Caldbeck ; see Colbeck .
Source:
The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
Similar surnames:
Calderon, Alderman, Calderone, Caldera, Alderink, Colebank
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Carby Name Meaning
English (Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire): habitational name from Careby in Lincolnshire which is named with the Old English personal name Kári + bȳ ‘farmstead village’. Swedish and Danish: habitational name from any of the places in Sweden and Denmark named Karby from karl ‘(free)man’ + býr ‘village’. Possibly an Americanized form of German Gerbig .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Carey, Darby, Corby, Canby, Saxby, Norby, Kirby, Harty, Carbo, Cardy
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts