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Burnett Name Meaning
Scottish and Irish (Tyrone and Antrim): descriptive nickname of Norman origin from Old French burnete a diminutive of brun ‘brown’ (see Brown ) or possibly in some instances a metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of burnete a high quality woolen cloth originally dark brown in color. Probably also an altered form of English Barnett . In some cases also an altered form of French Burnet ; compare Burnette .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Burnette, Burdett, Bernett, Dunnett, Gurnett, Burnet, Burkett
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Butterwick Name Meaning
English (mainly Yorkshire): habitational name from any of several places in northern England called Butterwick for example in County Durham Lincolnshire North Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire named in Old English as ‘the outlying farm where butter was made’ (from butere ‘butter’ + wīc ‘farmstead’). Compare Butterick and Buttrick . Americanized form of German Butterweck: metonymic occupational name for a baker of fine (white) breads etc. from Middle High German buter ‘butter’ + wecke ‘roll biscuit’.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Buttrick, Berwick, Utterback, Burwick, Butrick, Buttermore, Butter
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Calderbank Name Meaning
Unexplained; the distribution suggests an association with Calderbrook and Caldermoor in Rochdale (Lancs) but no place of this name is known in Lancs. Calderbank (Lanarks) appears irrelevant because the surname is not found in Scotland.alternatively an alteration of Caldbeck ; see Colbeck .
Source:
The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
Similar surnames:
Calderon, Alderman, Calderone, Caldera, Alderink, Colebank
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Carby Name Meaning
English (Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire): habitational name from Careby in Lincolnshire which is named with the Old English personal name Kári + bȳ ‘farmstead village’. Swedish and Danish: habitational name from any of the places in Sweden and Denmark named Karby from karl ‘(free)man’ + býr ‘village’. Possibly an Americanized form of German Gerbig .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Carey, Darby, Corby, Canby, Saxby, Norby, Kirby, Harty, Carbo, Cardy
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Carney Name Meaning
Irish:: shortened form of McCarney (Mac Cearnaigh). Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Cearnaigh ‘descendant of Cearnach’. See Kearney .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Carey, Cagney, Harney, Cairney, Carley, Karney, Carvey, Larney
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Carver Name Meaning
English: occupational name from Middle English kerver ‘one who cuts or carves (something)’ especially wood hence ‘carpenter’ but within that trade more specifically and commonly ‘sculptor of wooden images’; perhaps occasionally ‘sculptor in stone’. Americanized form of German Garber Gerber or Körber (see Koerber ).
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Carter, Carder, Cater, Barber, Haver, Sarver, Carner, Karner, Warner
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Chapman Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a merchant or trader Middle English chap(pe)man chepman Old English cēapmann cēpemann a compound of cēap ‘barter bargain price property’ + mann ‘man’. Jewish: English surname (see 1 above) adopted for a like-sounding (e.g. Czapnik; see Chapnick ) or like-meaning Jewish name (e.g. Kaufman ) in some other European language.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Carman, Hayman, Chaplin, Chipman, Shipman, Cadman, Coopman, Waxman
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Chester Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Chester the county seat of Cheshire or from any of various smaller places called with this word (as for example Little Chester in Derbyshire Chester le Street in County Durham or Chesters in Northumberland) which is from Old English ceaster ‘Roman fort or walled city’ (from Latin castra ‘legionary camp’).
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Rochester, Chesley, Pester, Hoster, Chesher, Chesser, Hester, Bester
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Clarke Name Meaning
English and Irish: variant of Clark .
Clark Name Meaning
English: from Middle English clerk clark ‘clerk cleric writer’ (Old French clerc; see Clerc ). The original sense was ‘man in a religious order cleric clergyman’. As all writing and secretarial work in medieval Christian Europe was normally done by members of the clergy the term clerk came to mean ‘scholar secretary recorder or penman’ as well as ‘cleric’. As a surname it was particularly common for one who had taken only minor holy orders. In medieval Christian Europe clergy in minor orders were permitted to marry and so found families; thus the surname could become established. Irish (Westmeath Mayo): in Ireland the English surname was frequently adopted partly by translation for Ó Cléirigh; see Cleary . Americanized form of Dutch De Klerk or Flemish De Clerck or of variants of these names and possibly also of French Clerc . Compare Clerk 2 and De Clark . Americanized form of Italian Calarco .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Clare, Clack, Lark, Clary, Plank, Flack, Clerk, Chard, Coard, Slack
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Collier Name Meaning
English: from Middle English colier in most parts of the country ‘maker or seller of charcoal’ but in some areas (such as Bolton le Moors and Wigan Lancashire) where coal measures were near the surface ‘miner or seller of coal’ (in the modern sense ‘fossil fuel’). The name was taken to Ireland from England and was first recorded there in 1305. In Petty's ‘census’ of 1659 it was recorded as a principal surname in Meath. English: occupational name from Middle English coilour coliour culliour Old French coileor coillour ‘tax collector’. Surnames with this origin seem to have died out in Britain. French (northern): from collier ‘collar’ a metonymic occupational name for a maker of collars.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Hollier, Callier, Hillier, Toller, Cobler, Colling, Collins, Colter
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts