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Jamieson Name Meaning
Scottish: variant of Jamison . It probably originated in the pronunciation of James as Jamis but the Scottish preference for this form of Jamison will have been reinforced by association with Jamie the Scots pet form of James .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Jameson, Jamison, Jamerson, Amberson, Jemison, Jimmerson, Bateson
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Judson Name Meaning
English: patronymic from the Middle English personal name Judd + -son.
Judd Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English personal name Judde Jutte a pet form of Jordan . German: variant of Jude .
Jude Name Meaning
English (Cambridgeshire Norfolk and Suffolk): variant of Judd . The name is also occasionally (but probably rarely) from the Middle English personal name Jude an Old French vernacular form of the Biblical name Latin Judas (see 2 below). French: from Jude a vernacular form of the Hebrew personal name Yehuda ‘Judah’ (of unknown meaning) based on its Latin form Judas. In the Bible this is the name of Jacob's eldest son. It was not a popular name among Christians in medieval Europe because of the associations it had with Judas Iscariot the disciple who betrayed Christ for thirty pieces of silver. See also Judah . French and German: name for a Jew Old French and Middle High German jude (from Latin Iudaeus Greek Ioudaios from Hebrew Yehudi ‘member of the tribe of Judah’).
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Julson, Hudson, Jepson, Jesson, Jason, Janson, Eidson, Dodson, Burson
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Longster Name Meaning
Of uncertain origin; perhaps a locative name from Langscar in Malham (WR Yorks) which is recorded as Langester (or Langescer) in about 1190 but the medieval record is otherwise silent. possibly a variant of Longstaff .
Longstaff Name Meaning
English (mainly northeastern): variant of Langstaff .
Langstaff Name Meaning
English (mainly northeastern): nickname from Middle English lang ‘long’ + staf ‘staff’ perhaps a nickname for a bailiff or other officer of the law. Compare Longstaff .
Source:
The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
Similar surnames:
Sangster, Linster, Longaker, Oster, Fenster, Forster, Koster, Langner
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Lowis Name Meaning
English: variant of Lewis
Lewis Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English Old French personal name Lewis Leweis Lowis from ancient Germanic (originally West Frankish) Hludwig (itself from hlōd- ‘fame famous’ + wīg- ‘battle’). This was Latinized as Ludovicus and Chlodovisus which were gallicized as Clovis or Clouis French Louis. The name may also appear as Lawis Laweys Lawes by unrounding of the vowel of Lowis on the analogy of the variation between Low and Law as pet forms of Middle English Lourence alias Laurence. This surname is also very common among African Americans. See Laws 2 and compare Lawrence . Welsh: adopted for the Welsh personal name Llywelyn (see Llewellyn ). Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Lughaidh ‘son of Lughaidh’. This is one of the most common Old Irish personal names. It is derived from Lugh ‘brightness’ which was the name of a Celtic god. Americanized form of French Louis . Americanized form of various like-sounding Jewish surnames. Chinese: variant Romanization of the surnames 廖 (see Liao ) 羅 (see Luo ) 劉 (see Liu ).
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Lewin, Levis, Clewis, Lein, Remis, Leis, Lees, Reis, Levin, Leys
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Marshall Name Meaning
English: usually an occupational name ‘farrier’ occasionally a status name ‘chief official of a royal household or court; a high officer of state’ from Middle English mareshal and Old French maresc(h)al. An even wider range of meanings is found in some other languages: compare for example Polish Marszałek (see Marszalek ). This name has been established in Ireland since the 13th century. It is also borne by Jews presumably as an Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish surnames. Americanized form of German Marschall . Americanized form of French Mercier .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Marschall, Marchal, Parshall, Marszalek, Marshal, Minshall, Marchand
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Mawson Name Meaning
English:: patronymic from Maw metronymic from a form of Maude
Maw Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire and Lincolnshire): from Middle English Maw(e) a pet form of the Anglo-Norman French and Middle English personal name Maheu (see Matthew ). Alternative derivation of Middle English Mawe from an Old English personal name Māwa is theoretically possible in northern England. Compare Mew . English (Yorkshire and Lincolnshire): occasionally a variant of Mowe . English (Yorkshire and Lincolnshire): topographic name meaning either ‘(dweller by) the meadow’ from an otherwise unrecorded Middle English word mawe mowe ‘meadow’ (attested in the second element of the Old English placename Dunmow Essex) or ‘(dweller by) the wet hollow’ from Middle English mawe ‘stomach’ (Old English maga) used topographically to denote a depression which collects water. See also Mowe . Burmese: from a personal name usually forming part of a compound name from maw ‘distinguished’. — Note: Since Burmese do not have hereditary surnames this name was registered as such only after immigration of its bearers to the US.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Malson, Lawson, Matson, Mayson, Pawson, Jason, Dawson, Madsen, Mason
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Matthews Name Meaning
English and Irish (Ulster and County Louth): patronymic from the personal name Matthew . In North America this surname has absorbed various cognates from other languages such as German Matthäus (from the personal name Matthäus from Latin Matthaeus) and Slovenian Matavž (from an obsolete vernacular form of the personal name Matevž from Latin Matthaeus). Compare Mathews . Irish: Anglicized form of Mac Mathghamhna (see McMahon ).
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Matthew, Mathews, Mathes, Matthes, Mattes, Matthey, Mathew, Matthias
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Meadus Name Meaning
In ancient Anglo-Saxon England, the ancestors of the Meadus surname lived in or near a meadow. The surname Meadus is derived from the Old English words mæd and mædwe, which both mean meadow. The surname Meadus belongs to the class of topographic surnames, which were given to people who resided near physical features such as hills, streams, churches, or types of trees.
Source:
https://www.houseofnames.com/meadus-family-crest
Similar surnames:
Readus, Meads, Means, Maus, Melhus, Matus, Meas, Mead, Mearns, Meader
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Mennell Name Meaning
See Meynell .
Meynell Name Meaning
From one of the French places named Mesnil from Old French mesnil (Latin *mansionile a diminutive of mansio ‘abode habitation’) used of the country domain where a noble lived with his family and retainers. As a surname it may also be used of a member of the household retainer. Some of the later bearers listed below may belong to (2). from the Continental Germanic female personal name Maginhild itself from *magin- ‘power’ + *hild- ‘battle’.
Source:
The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
Similar surnames:
Fennell, Kernell, Tennell, Pesnell, Meixell, Monell, Marnell, Meinel
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Milton Name Meaning
English and Scottish: habitational name from one or other of the many places called Milton or sometimes Middleton (see Middleton ) and occasionally Melton (see Melton ) most of which derive from Old English middel ‘middle’ or myln ‘mill’ + tūn ‘farmstead estate’.
Middleton Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the places so called. In over thirty instances from many different areas the name is from Old English midel ‘middle’ + tūn ‘enclosure settlement’. However Middleton on the Hill near Leominster in Herefordshire appears in Domesday Book as Miceltune the first element clearly being Old English micel ‘large’ ‘great’ (see Middlebrook ). Middleton Baggot and Middleton Priors in Shropshire have early spellings that suggest gem̄thhyll (from gem̄th ‘confluence’ + hyll ‘hill’) + tūn as the origin. This surname is also found in Scotland and Ireland. In the US it is also established among African Americans.
Melton Name Meaning
English (northern): habitational name from any of various places for example in Leicestershire Lincolnshire Norfolk and Yorkshire all of which have the same origin as Middleton with Old English middel replaced by its Old Norse equivalent methal after the Scandinavian settlement of northern and eastern England.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts