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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

Cooper Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a maker and repairer of wooden vessels such as barrels tubs buckets casks and vats from Middle English couper cowper (apparently from Middle Dutch kūper a derivative of kūp ‘tub container’ which was borrowed independently into English as coop). The prevalence of the surname its cognates and equivalents bears witness to the fact that this was one of the chief specialist trades in the Middle Ages throughout Europe. In North America the English surname has absorbed some cases of like-sounding cognates from other languages for example Dutch Kuiper . Americanized form of Jewish (Ashkenazic) Kupfer and Kupper (see Kuper ). Dutch: occupational name for a buyer or merchant Middle Dutch coper.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Hooper, Copper, Boozer, Comer, Booker, Couper, Coomer, Coover
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Dallas Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from the barony of Dallas a place near Forres in Morayshire probably named from British dol ‘meadow’ (Gaelic dail) + gwas ‘dwelling’ (Gaelic fas). The surname is also established in County Derry in Ireland.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Pallas, Dallam, Kallas, Dollar, Hallas, Ballam, Fallas, Fallis
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Denton Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of numerous places so called. The vast majority including those in Cambridgeshire Cumbria Dumfries Durham Kent Lancashire Lincolnshire Norfolk Northumberland Oxfordshire Sussex and Yorkshire are named from Old English denu ‘valley’ (see Dean ) + tūn ‘enclosure settlement’. An isolated example in Northamptonshire appears in the Domesday Book as Dodintone meaning ‘enclosure settlement associated with Dodda or Dudda’.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Fenton, Dunton, Henton, Benton, Kenton, Lenton, Dalton, Renton
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Dewes Name Meaning
See Dews .
Dews Name Meaning
English:: shortened form of Dewhurst . variant of Dew with post-medieval excrescent -s. variant of Devis a habitational name from Devizes in Wiltshire Old French devise ‘(place on) the boundaries’. variant of Dewis perhaps a habitational name from Ewyas Harold or Ewyas Lacy in Herefordshire both from a Welsh name meaning ‘sheep district’ with Anglo-Norman French fused preposition de.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
Similar surnames:
Mews, Dees, Daws, Dew, Deus, Deas, Deeks, Debs, Dede, Haws
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Dobson Name Meaning
English: patronymic from the Middle English personal name Dob(b) a rhyming pet form of Robert (see Dobbe ) + -son.
Dobbe Name Meaning
English: from the medieval personal name Dobbe one of several pet forms of Robert in which the initial letter was altered (compare Dobbs Hobbs ). This name was common in the 13th century in Yorkshire Lancashire Cheshire and Staffordshire. Dutch; German (also Döbbe): topographic name from Middle Dutch and Middle Lower German dobbe ‘lower swampy field; hole ditch’; as a habitational name possibly from an old so named watercourse near Leiden. Dutch; German (also Döbbe): possibly also a variant of Dobbert .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Dobbie, Nobbe, Dobb, Dobie, Doble, Kobbe, Robbe, Bobby, Obee, Noble
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Drury Name Meaning
English: nickname from Middle English druerie ‘love (especially sexual love) affection flirtation; sweetheart paramour; love token’ (Old French druerie druirie). Irish (Roscommon and Sligo): English name adopted by bearers of Gaelic Mac an Druaidh ‘son of the druid’. Compare Drew In some cases also an Americanized form of French Duguay .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Dury, Bury, Drum, Noury, Jury, Dray, Derry, Dobry, Maury, Ury
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Elliot Name Meaning
English and Scottish: variant of Elliott .
Elliott Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English Old French personal name Eliot a pet form of the Old Testament name Elijah rendered in Greek as Ēlias and in Old French as Élie + the diminutive suffix -ot; compare Ellis . The name Aylett may in some cases also have been confused with or absorbed into Elliott. Scottish: late variant of Elwood . Scottish (of Breton origin): perhaps as some members of the Elliott clan believe a Scottish variant of the Breton surname Elleouet a habitational name from one of the hamlets named Allegot in Finistère.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Lott, Herriott, Elliff, Elliot, Wilcott, Ellett, Flott, Pollitt
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Fairburn Name Meaning
English (northern): habitational name from Fairburn in Yorkshire so named from Old English fearn ‘fern’ + burna ‘stream’.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Eastburn, Kilburn, Washburn, Fishburn, Winburn, Cliburn, Ashburn
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Farndale Name Meaning
From Farndale in Kirkby Moorside (NR Yorks) which is recorded as Farnedale in about 1160 and Farendale in 1207. The place-name derives from Old English fearn ‘fern bracken’ + dæl ‘valley’. Compare Varndell .
Varndell Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Farthingdale in Lingfield (Surrey) which is recorded as le Farndelle and le Farendell in 1418. The placename appears to derive from a southern dialect variant of Old English fearn ‘fern’ + dell ‘pit dell valley’ but it may alternatively derive from Middle English ferthen-del faren-del ‘fourth part quarter of a virgate or acre of land’.
Source:
The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
Similar surnames:
Arendale, Barnicle, Carnevale, Wardle, Martindale, Sandall, Harnage
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts