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Steel Name Meaning
English: variant of Steele . Americanized form (translation into English) of German Stahl and Swedish Ståhl or Stål all meaning ‘steel’.
Steele Name Meaning
English and Scottish: nickname from Middle English stel(e) ‘steel’ perhaps used for someone considered as hard and durable as steel or for a foundry worker. English: variant of Stile . Scottish: habitational name from one or more of the places called Steel(e) or Steill in Ayrshire Berwickshire and Dumfriesshire from Scots steel ‘steep bank spur of a ridge’. Americanized form (translation into English) of German Stahl or Stahle and Swedish Ståhl Stål or Ståhle all meaning ‘steel’.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Seele, Sterle, Staple, Stoebe, Skeel, Steel, Selle, Steil, Sweere
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Darnbrook Name Meaning
From Darnbrook on Malham Moor in WR Yorks.
Source:
The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 201
Similar surnames:
Hornbrook, Benbrook, Lashbrook, Ashbrook, Hardenbrook, Stainbrook
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Day Name Meaning
English: occupational name from Middle English day(e) dey(e) ‘dairyman or dairymaid’. Originally used only of women it was later used of men with the sense ‘man in charge of the dairy cattle’. This is probably the most common source of the surname. English: from the Middle English personal name Day(e) or Dey. In western England this is probably a pet form of David but in northern England and perhaps elsewhere also it is a late Middle English variant of Daw a pet form of Ralph (see Daw Dakin ). Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Deaghaidh (see O'Dea ). Scottish: from an Anglicized form of the Gaelic personal name Daìdh a colloquial form of David . Welsh: from the personal name Dai a pet form of the personal name Dafydd Welsh form of David . French: habitational name from a place call Day in the Ardennes.7: French: possibly also a habitatonal name with fused preposition d(e) ‘of from’ denoting someone from Ay in Marne.8: German: variant of Dey and in North America (also) an altered form of this.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Hay, Kay, May, Bay, Pay, Ray, Daw, Gay, Dey, Fay
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Elsworth Name Meaning
English: variant of Ellsworth .
Ellsworth Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire): habitational name from Elsworth a lost place in Norwood near Fewston (Yorkshire) from the Old English personal name El(l)i (see Ellington ) + Old English worth ‘enclosure’ (see Worth ). English: habitational name from Elworth in Abbotsbury (Dorset) with instrusive -s- from the Old English personal name Ella + Old English worth. English: rare variant of Elsworthy a habitational name from Elworthy (Somerset) with the same origin as the placename in 2 above (with Old English worth later replaced by worthig) ‘enclosure’. English: habitational name from Elsworth in Cambridgeshire with the same origin as the placename in 1 above.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Molesworth, Aylesworth, Dodsworth, Ainsworth, Unsworth, Dilworth
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Fowler Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a fowler a hunter or trapper of wild birds (a common medieval occupation) from Middle English fogheler fugheler (Old English fugelere a derivative of fugol ‘bird’).
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Fowle, Bowler, Dowler, Filer, Power, Fogler, Cobler, Folley, Soler
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Umpleby Name Meaning
English (North and Yorkshire): perhaps a variant of Uppleby with an intrusive -m-. Uppleby may be from Middle English up in by ‘up in the village’ (i.e. at the top end) a name which is recorded in Haisthorpe (East Yorkshire) in 1297. The development to Uppiby and Uppilby can be seen in villages not far away such as Seamer Old Malton New Malton and Buckton. From East Yorkshire the name migrated to North Lincolnshire on the Humber and apparently to Yorkshire where the presumed variant Umpleby is the only recorded form.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Appleby, Maltby, Milby, Utley, Emley, Smeby, Copley, Moseby, Lumley
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Graham Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from Grantham in Lincolnshire recorded in Domesday Book as Graham (as well as Grantham Grandham and Granham). See also Grantham . Irish (especially Ulster): in Ireland Graham is generally the Scottish name but it has additionally been adopted as an Anglicized form of both Ó Creacháin (see Crehan ) and Ó Gormghaile (see Gormley ).
Grantham Name Meaning
English (Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire): habitational name from Grantham in Lincolnshire of uncertain origin. The final element is Old English hām ‘homestead’; the first may be Old English grand ‘gravel’ or perhaps a personal name Granta which probably originated as a byname meaning ‘snarler’. See also Graham .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Branham, Grant, Tatham, Langham, Grantland, Canham, Graham, Rackham
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Wade Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English personal name Wade (Old English Wada or via Norman French from ancient Germanic Wado of unclear origin but possibly related to Old English wadan ‘to go’). English: topographic name from Middle English wade ‘ford’ (Old English (ge)wæd ‘ford especially a tidal crossing’) for someone who lived by a ford or a habitational name from a place so called such as Wade Hall in North Cove (Suffolk). Irish: shortened and altered from Mac Uaid see McQuaid . German: occupational name or nickname from Middle Low German wade ‘garment large net’. West African (mainly Senegal also Mauritania): Wolof name of unexplained etymology.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Cade, Ware, Bade, Lade, Gade, Wale, Kade, Eade, Tade, Wage
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Redfearn Name Meaning
English (West Yorkshire): variant of Redfern .
Redfern Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Redfern near Rochdale (Lancashire) recorded as le Redefern in the 13th century probably from Old English rēad ‘red’ + fearn ‘fern bracken’.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Redfern, Reder, Fearn, Reddan, Redman, Redford, Redifer, Reveal
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Dewar Name Meaning
Scottish:: from Gaelic Mac an Deoraidh ‘son of the pilgrim or sojourner’. Perhaps also an occupational name for a custodian of holy relics (which was normally a hereditary office) from Gaelic deoradh ‘pilgrim stranger’. habitational name from Dewar a place near Dalkeith of uncertain origin.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Demar, Debar, Detar, Dewart, Dean, Deger, Devan, Delay, Deer, Dew
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts