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Stothart Name Meaning
See Stoddart . see Stothard .
Stoddart Name Meaning
English (Durham and Cumberland) and Scottish (Midlothian and Lanarkshire): variant of Stoddard .
Stothard Name Meaning
For a keeper of cattle or horses from Middle English stot ‘steer bullock’ or ‘horse’ + herd(e) ‘herdsman’. The name was probably confused with Stodeherd ‘keeper of stud-horses’ so some examples may alternatively belong at (2). see Stoddart .
Source:
The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Moothart, Stobart, Smithart, Stoddart, Stewart, Stoddard, Stott
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Stott Name Meaning
English: nickname from Middle English stott ‘bullock steer’ denoting someone who resembled a bullock in build or temperament or perhaps for someone who had charge of bullocks. The term was also occasionally used in Middle English of a horse or heifer (and so as a term of abuse for a woman) and it survived into the 19th century as a dialect word for a clumsy stupid person. The name may have been confused with Stout .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Slott, Stock, Shott, Stout, Stone, Shutt, Ott, Storm, Tout, Schott
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Swiers Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire): variant of Swires . Dutch: patronymic from the personal name Swier .
Swires Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire): variant of Swire with post-medieval excrescent -s.
Swier Name Meaning
Dutch: from a personal name of ancient Germanic origin Sweder Sweer Swier composed of the elements swinth ‘strong fast’ + hari heri ‘army’.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Swier, Sweers, Zwiers, Spiers, Shiers, Siers, Stiers, Swyers, Wiers
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Whitehouse Name Meaning
English (West Midlands especially Staffordshire): topographic name for someone who lived in a white house from Middle English whit ‘white’ + hous ‘house’ or a habitational name from a place called with these elements as for example Whittas in Cumbria. Alternatively a variant of Whittles .
Whittles Name Meaning
English (northern): nickname from Middle English whit ‘white’ + hals ‘neck’.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Stonehouse, Brickhouse, Waterhouse, Hillhouse, Wheelhouse, Whitmore
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Barrett Name Meaning
English and Irish (of Norman origin): probably a nickname for a quarrelsome person from Old French barat Middle English bar(r)at bar(r)et(te) ‘trouble distress’ later ‘deception fraud; contention strife’. Through Norman settlement it also became common in Ireland where it was Gaelicized as Baróid (Munster) and Baréid (Connacht).
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Barre, Berrett, Barnett, Garret, Barreto, Parrett, Garnett, Barlett
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Burrill Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire and Lincolnshire): variant of Burrell .
Burrell Name Meaning
English:: nickname from Middle English Old French burel borel (also birel) ‘reddish brown’ referring perhaps to complexion or hair color. This was occasionally used by Normans as a personal name perhaps a nickname substituted for the personal name. The word also denoted a coarse woollen cloth of this color so the surname may sometimes refer to dress or it may be a nickname for a maker of the cloth a bureller. habitational name from Burwell in Lincolnshire see Burwell .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Murrill, Turrill, Harrill, Borrell, Morrill, Burell, Burchill
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Busfield Name Meaning
See Bousfield
Source:
The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
Bousfield Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Bousfield in Orton (Westmorland). The placename derives from Old English boga or Old Norse bogi ‘bow’ in the sense ‘curving hillside’ with a Middle English genitive singular ending -es + Old Norse fjall fell ‘mountain hill’.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Burfield, Bonfield, Barfield, Byfield, Belfield, Banfield, Hosfield
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Coverdale Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire and Durham): habitational name from Coverdale in the North Yorkshire ‘in the valley (Middle English dale) of the Cover river (a Celtic name)’.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Cheadle, Overly, Overall, Iredale, Courage, Corral, Coverdell
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Darnbrough Name Meaning
See Darnbrook .
Darnbrook Name Meaning
From Darnbrook on Malham Moor in WR Yorks.
Source:
The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
Similar surnames:
Yarbrough, Darrough, Malbrough, Stanbrough, Fambrough, Hansbrough
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Davidson Name Meaning
Scottish northern English and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from the personal name David + -son. As a Jewish name the last element comes from German Sohn ‘son’. Irish (Down) and Scottish: adopted for Gaelic Mac Daibhéid ‘son of David’; see McDevitt . Americanized form (and a rare Swedish variant) of Swedish Davidsson: patronymic from the personal name David . Americanized form of Norwegian Danish and North German Davidsen a cognate of 3 above.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Davidsen, Davisson, Davison, David, Davids, Arvidson, Davidoff
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts