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Spurr Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire): nickname for someone who made sold or wore spurs from Middle English spore spure ‘spur’ (Old English spora spura). Compare Spoor and Spurrier .
Spoor Name Meaning
Dutch and English (Durham and Northumberland): metonymic occupational name for a maker of spurs a lorimer from Middle Dutch spore Middle English spore spure ‘spur’.
Spurrier Name Meaning
English: occupational name for someone who made spurs from Middle English sporier(e) spurier(e) ‘spurrier’ (an agent derivative of Middle English spore spure ‘spur’).
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Sparr, Spoor, Sperr, Spear, Parr, Speer, Sporer, Starr, Sours, Sporn
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Stobbart Name Meaning
From the Middle English personal name Stubard Stobard late Old English *Stubheard from stubb *stobb ‘tree-stump’ + heard ‘hard’ recorded only in E Anglia so the surname in post-medieval NE England may be due to migration from there via the east coast trade route. The post-medieval surname may have been confused with Stappard and Stopford and in E Anglia it may have been absorbed into Stibbard .
Source:
The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016

Terry Name Meaning
English and Irish: from the Norman personal name T(h)erry (Old French Thierri) a short form of Theodoric which is composed of the ancient Germanic elements theud ‘people race’ + rīc ‘power(ful) rich’. Theodoric was the name of the Ostrogothic leader (c. 454–526) who invaded Italy in 488 and established his capital at Ravenna in 49 His name was sometimes taken as a derivative of Greek Theodōros (see Theodore ). An Anglo-Norman family of this name has been in County Cork Ireland since the 13th century. Irish: sometimes an Anglicized (‘translated’) form of Gaelic Mac Toirdhealbhaigh (see Turley ).
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Merry, Berry, Ferry, Derry, Troy, Perry, Werry, Terra, Jerry, Torr
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Thackeray Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire): habitational name from Thackray in the parish of Great Timble Yorkshire now submerged in Fewston reservoir. It was named with Old Norse thak ‘thatching reeds’ + (v)rá ‘nook corner’.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Thacker, Harker, Hackney, Thackery, Blackerby, Hackman, Haverly
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Thorpe Name Meaning
English (mainly Yorkshire and Lancashire): from Middle English thorp(e) ‘village hamlet farmstead’ (Old Norse Old English thorp ‘secondary settlement’). The surname may be topographic for someone who lived in such a settlement or habitational for someone from any of several places called Thorp(e) which are most frequent in Yorkshire the Midlands and East Anglia. Compare Throop .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Thorn, Hope, Torp, Thorley, Shore, Thor, Thore, Torre, Horne, Thorup
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Travers Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin): variant of Travis 1 and a cognate of 3 below or a variant of Trevors itself a variant of Trevor . Irish (Leitrim and Donegal; of Anglo-Norman origin): variant of Trower . French: topographic name for someone who lived at a crossing place Old French travers or a habitational name from (Le) Travers the name of several places in various parts of France named with this word.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Travis, Rivers, Graver, Trover, Traver, Graves, Beaver, Trevor
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Vasey Name Meaning
English (Durham and North Yorkshire): variant of Veazey .
Veazey Name Meaning
English (Rutland): nickname from Anglo-Norman French enveisé ‘playful’ (Old French envoisié) Latinized as invesiatus (compare medieval Latin invasus ‘possessed by a demon’) and paralleled by lascivus ‘wanton’. The first syllable was lost early resulting in numerous dialectal and orthographic variants; only Lenfestey preserves the fuller form with an intrusive medial -t-. There has also been some confusion with Vessey .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Vesey, Veasey, Basey, Maxey, Vassey, Havey, Vasser, Vasel, Rasey
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Vause Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire and Lancashire):: of Norman origin a habitational name from Vaux (see Vaux ) a common French placename singular and plural of val ‘valley’ the plural form being Latinized in surnames as de Vallibus. Norman lords with this surname are recorded in 12th- and early 13th-century records in Cumberland (Irthington) Devon (Farwood in Colyton) East Yorkshire (Warter) Essex (Belchamp) and Leicestershire (Belvoir). Compare Vale . nickname perhaps from Middle English fals faus vaus (Old French fals faus Old English fals) ‘deceitful disloyal dishonest mendacious’ but it is more likely the name arises from 1 with the common Anglo-Norman French substitution of le for de in their surname.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Sause, Halse, Gause, Hase, Paule, Aube, Causey, Baust, Rouse, Sasse
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Willis Name Meaning
English:: variant of Will with genitival -s. This surname represents a retention of the second syllable introduced by the addition of the Middle English genitival suffix -es which would have been pronounced in the Middle English period. Compare Wills . In some cases the name is a variant of Willey with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. variant of Willows .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Willits, Wills, Tillis, Lillis, Millis, Willms, Willison, Wilkes
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts