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Wilkinson Name Meaning
English: patronymic (‘son of Wilkin’) from Wilkin . Compare Wilkerson .
Wilkin Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English personal name Wilkin a pet form of William introduced to England and Scotland by Flemings and Picards after the Norman Conquest. North German: variant of Wilken .
Wilkerson Name Meaning
English (East Anglia and South East Midlands): from Middle English Wilkeson a shortened form of Wilkinson ‘son of Wilkin or young William’. The -r- is intrusive.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Wilkins, Wilkerson, Wilkenson, Willison, Watkinson, Dickinson
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Habbishaw 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:
Habersham, Hanshaw, Harshaw, Robishaw, Henshaw, Bagshaw, Hoshaw
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts
The name Habbishaw is a "metonymic for a maker of habergeons, sleeveless coats or jackets of mail or scale armour, worn also as a rough garment for penance," derived from the Middle English or Old French word "haubergeon", a diminutive of hauberc.
Source:
A Dictionary of English Surnames - Reaney and Wilson - ISBN: 9780192806635

Woodford Name Meaning
English and Scottish: habitational name from any of various places called with Old English wudu ‘wood’ + ford ‘ford’ such as Woodford in Cheshire Cornwall Essex Northamptonshire and Wiltshire. In Scotland the name is derived from Woodford in Saint Boswells (Roxburghshire).
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Woodcock, Woodbury, Radford, Woodrow, Welford, Sandford, Winford
Findon Name Meaning
From Findern (Derbys) which is recorded as Findena in 1188 and Fyndren in 1330. occasionally from Findon (Sussex) which is recorded as Findune in 1086.
Source:
The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
Similar surnames:
Lindon, Finton, Windon, Linton, Hinton, Fenton, London, Linden
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Appleby Name Meaning
English (northern): habitational name from any of various places for example in Leicestershire Lincolnshire and Cumbria named from Old English æppel or Old Norse epli ‘apple’ + Old Norse bȳ ‘farm’.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Umpleby, Apley, Apple, Appleton, Ansley, Ripley, Ashley, Paley
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Arand Name Meaning
English (Lincolnshire): nickname from Middle English erraunt ‘arrant notorious’ or from Middle English errende ‘straying’ (the present participle of the verb erren ‘to go astray’). Compare Arrand .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Ashman Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English personal name Asman Ashman (Old English Æscmann probably originally a byname from æscman ‘shipman sailor’). Americanized form of German Aschmann . Americanized form of German and Swiss German Eschmann .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Cashman, Allman, Asman, Osman, Ashmun, Aikman, Hashman, Ashland
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Bailey Name Meaning
English: status name for a steward or official from Middle English bailli ‘manager administrator’ (Old French baillis from Late Latin baiulivus an adjectival derivative of baiulus ‘attendant carrier porter’). English: habitational name from Bailey in Little Mitton Lancashire named with Old English beg ‘berry’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. English: occasionally a topographic name for someone who lived by the outer wall of a castle from Middle English (Old French) bailli ‘outer courtyard of a castle’ (Old French bail(le) ‘enclosure’ a derivative of bailer ‘to enclose’). This term became a placename in its own right denoting a district beside a fortification or wall as in the case of the Old Bailey in London which formed part of the early medieval outer wall of the city. Altered form of French Bailly .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Barley, Bailes, Bagley, Batley, Baile, Gailey, Badley, Brailey, Paley
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Barrow Name Meaning
English:: habitational name from any of numerous places called with Old English bearo bearu ‘grove’ (dative bear(o)we bearuwe) or Old English beorg dative beorge (Middle English berwe barwe) ‘mound tumulus’ for example in Cheshire Derbyshire Gloucestershire Lancashire Leicestershire Lincolnshire Shropshire Suffolk and Somerset or a topographic name with the same meaning. habitational name from Barrow in Furness Lancashire which is named with an unattested Celtic word barr here meaning ‘promontory’ + Old Norse ey ‘island’.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Barlow, Carrow, Yarrow, Harrow, Barre, Barrows, Arrow, Harlow, Harrop
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts