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Moore Name Meaning
English: from Middle English more ‘moor marsh fen’ (Old English mōr) hence a topographic name for someone who lived in such a place or a habitational name from any of various places called with this word as for example Moore in Cheshire or More in Shropshire. English (of Norman origin): ethnic name from Old French more ‘Moor’ either someone from North Africa or more often a nickname for someone thought to resemble a Moor. Compare Morrell and Moreau . English (of Norman origin): from the Middle English personal name More (Old French More Maur Latin Maurus) originally denoting either ‘Moor’ or someone with a swarthy complexion (compare Morrell Morrin Morris and sense 2 above). There was a 6th-century Christian saint of this name. Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Mórdha ‘descendant of Mórdha’ a byname meaning ‘great proud’ or ‘stately’. Scottish: variant of Muir . Welsh: nickname from mawr ‘big great’ either describing a man's size or greatness (perhaps applied ironically) or as a means of distinguishing two men with the same name.7: Americanized form of Slovenian Mur .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
More, Mort, Moors, Motte, Mole, Mohr, Moores, Boone, Morel, Honore
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Wrigglesworth Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Woodlesford in Oulton (Yorkshire). The placename derives from Old English wrīdels ‘thicket’ + ford ‘ford’. There has been much confusion with Wigglesworth .
Wigglesworth Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire): habitational name from Wigglesworth in North Yorkshire recorded in Domesday Book as Winchelesuuorde from the genitive case of the Old English byname Wincel meaning ‘child’ + Old English worth ‘enclosure’.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Wigglesworth, Wiglesworth, Middlesworth, Molesworth, Charlesworth
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Turpin Name Meaning
French and English: from the Old French and Middle English personal name Turpin representing the falling together of the Old Norse name Thórfinnr (composed of the elements Thórr the name of the god of thunder in Scandinavian mythology + the ethnic name Finnr ‘Finn’; compare Turvin ) and of the Latin name Turpinus (from Latin turpis ‘ugly base’) one of the self-abasing names adopted as a mark of humility by the early Christians (it was borne by the archbishop of Rheims in the Charlemagne legend) and of the Old French and Middle English form.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Turin, Turbin, Turton, Burgin, Dupin, Train, Burlin, Tarin, Arpin
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Rushforth Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire): variant of Rushford . There is often confusion between this name and Rushworth .
Rushford Name Meaning
English and Scottish: habitational name primarily from Ryshworth in Bingley (Yorkshire) but sometimes perhaps also from Rushford (Norfolk) and Rushford Barton in Chagford (Devon). The Yorkshire and Devon placenames derive from Old English risc ‘rush’ + ford ‘ford’. The Norfolk placename derives from Old English risc + worth ‘enclosure’. Americanized form of French Rochefort .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Rushworth, Rushford, Cutsforth, Cudworth, Burnworth, Ruston, Rushmore
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Waite Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin): occupational name for a watchman either in a town or castle from Anglo-Norman French waite ‘watchman member of the watch’ (of ancient Germanic origin; compare Wachter ). In the Middle Ages the town waits typically combined the functions of watchmen and musicians through being trumpeters or pipers. There may also have been some late confusion with White or Wheat .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
White, Waithe, Tite, Wait, Waits, Waitt, Maire, Waites, Tarte, Walter
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Foster Name Meaning
English: variant of Forster ‘worker in a forest’. English: perhaps a nickname from Middle English foster ‘foster parent’ (Old English fōstre a derivative of fōstrian ‘to nourish or rear’). But other explanations are equally or more likely. English: from Old French forcetier ‘maker of scissors’; see Forster English: variant of Fewster from Anglo-Norman French Middle English fu(y)ster ‘maker of saddletrees’ (compare Foister ). Probably an Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish surnames such as Forster .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Forster, Oster, Easter, Hoster, Fester, Fosse, Bolter, Koster, Osmer
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Finney Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of several places called from Old English and Old Norse finn ‘coarse grass’ + Old English (ge)hæg ‘enclosure’ or ēg ‘island land partly surrounded by water’ such as the lost place Fynney in Cheddleton Staffordshire (recorded as Fyneye in 1320) Fenay in Almondbury (Yorkshire) Finney in Croston (Lancashire) Finney Hill in Kingsley (Cheshire) and perhaps also Fenny Rough in Chaddesley Corbett (Worcestershire). Compare Feeney . English: habitational name perhaps also from Vinals Farm in Cuckfield or Vinehall in Mountfield (both in Sussex) or Viney's Wood in Crundale (Kent); or from some other place described in Middle English as a fin-haw (Old English fīn-haga) ‘wood-heap enclosure’. Irish: from Ó Fidhne see Feeney
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Binney, Finne, Sidney, Finley, Linney, Finner, Winney, Hanney, Finn
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Brot Name Meaning
Historically, surnames evolved as a way to sort people into groups - by occupation, place of origin, clan affiliation, patronage, parentage, adoption, and even physical characteristics (like red hair). Many of the modern surnames in the dictionary can be traced back to Britain and Ireland.
Similar surnames:
Brow, Brott, Boot, Broz, Bro, Brost, Broe, Brom, Brotz, Brod
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Silversides Name Meaning
Variant of Silverside with post-medieval excrescent -s.
Silverside Name Meaning
From Middle English silver ‘silver’ + side ‘side (of the body ?head)’. Compare Richard Silvereghe (‘silver eye’) 1414–15 in Inquisitiones post Mortem (Yorks); Adam Siluermouth (‘silver mouth’) 1379 in Yorks Poll Tax; John Silvertop (‘silver hair’) 1478 in York Freemen's Register. Some early bearers may belong with sense from Silver Side in Farlam (Cumb) so recorded in 1485. The place-name appears to derive from Old English seolfor ‘silver’ + sīde ‘long side of a slope or hill hill side’.
Source:
The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
Similar surnames:
Silverstone, Silverio, Silvestre, Silvester, Silverstein, Silveria
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts