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Cobb Name Meaning
English and Scottish (Angus): from the Middle English byname or personal name Cobbe Cobba or its Old Norse cognate Kobbi which are probably from an element meaning ‘lump’ used to denote a large man. Irish: shortened form of McCobb a patronymic from the personal name Hob an English pet form of Robert .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Lobb, Babb, Job, Corby, Corn, Dobb, Robb, Codd, Bobo, Hobby
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Coburn Name Meaning
English and Scottish: variant of Cockburn reflecting the pronunciation. Altered form of German Kobern.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Cobern, Cobourn, Cogburn, Corn, Osburn, Cober, Cockburn, Thoburn
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Cook Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a cook a seller of cooked meats or a keeper of an eating house from Middle English cok coke cook couk cuk(e) (Old English cōc) ‘cook’ or ‘seller of cooked foods’. See also Kew . Irish and Scottish: usually identical in origin with the English name (see 1 above) but in some cases a shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Cúg ‘son of Hugo’ (see McCook ). Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames meaning ‘cook’ such as German and Jewish Koch Dutch Kook Polish Kucharz and Kucharczyk Slovenian and Croatian Kuhar North German Kuk . Americanized form of Slovenian Croatian and Polish Kuk . Americanized form (mistranslation into English) of French Lécuyer ‘squire’ (see Lecuyer ). Americanized form of Korean and especially Chinese (Cantonese) Kuk 5-9 or of its variant Kook 3-6.
Cooke Name Meaning
English and Irish: variant of Cook
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Rook, Hook, Look, Coop, Crook, Kook, Coon, Cool, Tock, Book
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Roper Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): occupational name from Middle English roper(e) ‘maker or seller of rope’. See Roop . North German (Röper): occupational name for a town crier from an agent derivative of Middle Low German rōpen ‘to call’.
Roop Name Meaning
Americanized form of Dutch Roep: from a short form of the ancient Germanic personal name Robrecht. Americanized form of German Rupp . English (East Yorkshire): nickname from Middle English rop(e) ‘rope’ possibly for a maker or seller of rope. Compare Roper . This surname is now rare in Britain.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Rover, Roder, Roker, Koper, Raper, Royer, Soper, Roger, Reder, Roser
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Cundall Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire): habitational name from Cundall in North Yorkshire which was probably originally named simply with Old English cumb ‘valley’ and later acquired the addition of Old Norse dalr ‘valley’.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Tindall, Udall, Sandall, Mundahl, Rundell, Woodall, Kendall, Sundahl
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Dakin Name Meaning
English: variant of Dawkin a pet form of the personal name Daw + the diminutive suffix -kin. The name mostly denoted someone known as ‘little or young Ralph’ or perhaps occasionally ‘little or young David’. Ralph was much commoner than David as a personal name in most parts of medieval England. The -kin suffix may have been used to distinguish a son from a father bearing the same personal name.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Daykin, Eakin, Makin, Lakin, Davin, Darin, Itkin, Malkin, Matkin
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Daulby Name Meaning
See Dalby
Dalby Name Meaning
Norwegian Danish and northern English: habitational name from any of various places called Dalby named with Old Norse dalr ‘valley’ + bȳ ‘farm settlement’. The English surname is common in Yorkshire where it derives mainly from Dalby in North Yorkshire but similarly named places in Leicestershire and Lincolnshire are also possible sources. In Norway it is common as a farm name. See also Dahlby
Dahlby Name Meaning
Norwegian and Danish: habitational name from a Norwegian farm name or Danish placename both derived from Old Norse dalr ‘valley’ + býr ‘farmstead’.
Source:
The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Darby, Dahlby, Danby, Saxby, Carby, Welby, Maltby, Selby, Milby
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Davenport Name Meaning
English (Lancashire and Cheshire): habitational name from a place in Cheshire named Davenport from the Dane river (apparently named with a Celtic cognate of Middle Welsh Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022u ‘to drop to trickle’) + Old English port ‘market town’. Irish: in Tipperary this is an English surname adopted by bearers of Munster Gaelic Ó Donndubhartaigh ‘descendant of Donndubhartach’ a personal name composed of the elements donn ‘brown-haired man’ or ‘chieftain’ + dubh ‘black’ + artach ‘nobleman’.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Davern, Devenport, Newport, Allport, Dover, Lavender, Danforth
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Davies Name Meaning
Welsh and English: variant of Davis a patronymic equivalent to Welsh ap Dafydd ‘Dafydd's son’. The name is especially numerous in south Wales. This form of the name probably shows the influence of Davy the common English form of the personal name David in the late medieval and early modern periods (see Davey ).
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Davie, Davids, Davis, Danis, Davino, David, Maves, Davi, Dawes
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Dodd Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English personal name Dodd(e) Dudd(e) Old English Dodd(a) Dudd(a) a name of uncertain origin which remained in fairly widespread and frequent use from Lincolnshire to Devon and from Essex to Lancashire in England until the 14th century. English: nickname from Middle English dod a word of uncertain meaning possibly a ‘lumpish thickset person’ (compare modern English dialect dod ‘bunch or heap’) or by extension a ‘foolish person’ (compare Middle English dode-mused ‘stupid’) or perhaps a derivative of dodden ‘to shave (the head) to trim (hair)’ hence ‘the hairless or close-cropped one’. English: possibly a modern variant of Daud or Dowd the former arising from the Middle English personal name Daud(e) an extended form of Daw and the latter from the Middle English personal name Doude perhaps a side-form of either Dodde or of Daude a pet form of Ralph . Irish: of English origin (see 1 above) taken to Sligo in the 16th century by a Shropshire family; also sometimes adopted by bearers of the Gaelic name Ó Dubhda (see Dowd ).
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Codd, Dowd, Doe, Gold, Todd, Loud, Hoad, Dodds, Sadd, Dodge
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts