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Dobson Name Meaning
English: patronymic from the Middle English personal name Dob(b) a rhyming pet form of Robert (see Dobbe ) + -son.
Dobbe Name Meaning
English: from the medieval personal name Dobbe one of several pet forms of Robert in which the initial letter was altered (compare Dobbs Hobbs ). This name was common in the 13th century in Yorkshire Lancashire Cheshire and Staffordshire. Dutch; German (also Döbbe): topographic name from Middle Dutch and Middle Lower German dobbe ‘lower swampy field; hole ditch’; as a habitational name possibly from an old so named watercourse near Leiden. Dutch; German (also Döbbe): possibly also a variant of Dobbert .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Dobbie, Nobbe, Dobb, Dobie, Doble, Kobbe, Robbe, Bobby, Obee, Noble
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Drury Name Meaning
English: nickname from Middle English druerie ‘love (especially sexual love) affection flirtation; sweetheart paramour; love token’ (Old French druerie druirie). Irish (Roscommon and Sligo): English name adopted by bearers of Gaelic Mac an Druaidh ‘son of the druid’. Compare Drew In some cases also an Americanized form of French Duguay .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Dury, Bury, Drum, Noury, Jury, Dray, Derry, Dobry, Maury, Ury
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Elliot Name Meaning
English and Scottish: variant of Elliott .
Elliott Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English Old French personal name Eliot a pet form of the Old Testament name Elijah rendered in Greek as Ēlias and in Old French as Élie + the diminutive suffix -ot; compare Ellis . The name Aylett may in some cases also have been confused with or absorbed into Elliott. Scottish: late variant of Elwood . Scottish (of Breton origin): perhaps as some members of the Elliott clan believe a Scottish variant of the Breton surname Elleouet a habitational name from one of the hamlets named Allegot in Finistère.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Lott, Herriott, Elliff, Elliot, Wilcott, Ellett, Flott, Pollitt
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Fairburn Name Meaning
English (northern): habitational name from Fairburn in Yorkshire so named from Old English fearn ‘fern’ + burna ‘stream’.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Eastburn, Kilburn, Washburn, Fishburn, Winburn, Cliburn, Ashburn
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Farndale Name Meaning
From Farndale in Kirkby Moorside (NR Yorks) which is recorded as Farnedale in about 1160 and Farendale in 1207. The place-name derives from Old English fearn ‘fern bracken’ + dæl ‘valley’. Compare Varndell .
Varndell Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Farthingdale in Lingfield (Surrey) which is recorded as le Farndelle and le Farendell in 1418. The placename appears to derive from a southern dialect variant of Old English fearn ‘fern’ + dell ‘pit dell valley’ but it may alternatively derive from Middle English ferthen-del faren-del ‘fourth part quarter of a virgate or acre of land’.
Source:
The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
Similar surnames:
Arendale, Barnicle, Carnevale, Wardle, Martindale, Sandall, Harnage
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Feather Name Meaning
English: from Middle English fether fed(d)er ‘feather’ or perhaps a shortened form of Middle English fetherer applied as a metonymic occupational name for a trader in feathers and down a maker of quilts or possibly a maker of pens. Feathermongers are recorded from the 13th century onward. English: perhaps also a variant of Father from Middle English fader father feder fether (Old English fæder) ‘father’ often used to denote someone who exercised protecting care like that of a father. Native American: translation into English and shortening of a personal name based on a word such as Chippewa miigwan or Lakota Sioux wiyaka meaning ‘feather’. The great cultural significance of the eagle feathers to many Native American tribes is reflected in their traditional personal names many of which were adopted as surnames (translated into English) e.g. Red Feather (see Redfeather ) and White Feather (see Whitefeather ). Americanized form of German Feder .
Source
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Feathers, Leather, Flasher, Weathers, Flathers, Rather, Heather
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Flockhart Name Meaning
Scottish (of Norman origin): variant of Folkard with metathesis of l from the Middle English (Old French) personal name Folcard Foucard Focard (ancient Germanic Fulchard).
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Lockhart, Brookhart, Lockart, Linkhart, Lockard, Lockaby, Flohr
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Fryer Name Meaning
English: variant of Freer Americanized form of German Freier or Freyer .
Freer Name Meaning
English: sometimes from Middle English frere frier ‘brother friend comrade’ (Old French frere). During the 13th century however the word increasingly denoted ‘member of one of the mendicant religious orders’ the usual modern sense of the word friar. The first friars arrived in England in 122 As with Abbot Monk Nunn and Prior late medieval use of Frere as a nickname was probably uncomplimentary for by the mid 14th century the once popular friars had become a byword in satirical literature for self-indulgent smooth-talking hypocrisy. Friars were not allowed to marry but some of them probably fathered children. After the Reformation former friars were free to marry and one such is said to have been the progenitor of the Friers of Melrose parish Roxburgh an instance if true of post-medieval surname creation. The name may also be occupational for someone who lived or worked at a friary (Middle English frere ‘house of friars’). Americanized form of French Frère (see Frere ). German: cognate of Friedrich .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Frye, Frier, Freyer, Cryer, Pryer, Frayer, Bryer, Dryer, Freer, Payer
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Gamble Name Meaning
English: from the personal name Gamall Gamal (Old Norse gamall ‘old’). The medial [b] has developed as a transitional consonant between [m] and [l] as in thimble (from Old English thȳmel). Altered form of German Gambel .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Gable, Game, Womble, Galle, Kemble, Kimble, Garbe, Hambly, Humble
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Gilbert Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin) French and German: from the personal name Giselbert composed of the ancient Germanic elements gīsil ‘pledge hostage noble youth’ (see Giesel ) + berht ‘bright famous’. This personal name enjoyed considerable popularity in England during the Middle Ages partly as a result of the fame of Saint Gilbert of Sempringham (1085–1189) the founder of the only native English monastic order. Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish surnames.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Wilbert, Filbert, Hilbert, Albert, Guilbert, Milbert, Gimbert
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts