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Petersen Name Meaning
Danish Norwegian Dutch and North German: patronymic from the personal name Peter . Americanized form of Norwegian and Danish Pedersen or Pettersen . English: variant of Peterson .
Peterson Name Meaning
English Scottish and German: patronymic from the personal name Peter . In North America this surname has absorbed various cognates and their derivatives from other languages e.g. Norwegian and Danish Pedersen and Pettersen and their Swedish cognates (see 2 below) Polish Piotrowicz Slovenian Petrič Petrovčič and Petrovič (see Petric Petrovic ). Americanized form (and a less common Swedish variant) of Swedish Petersson a cognate of 1 above and also of its variant Pettersson . Compare 1 above.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Person, Peters, Peerson, Pierson, Petersen, Pearson, Petersohn
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Pickles Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire): variant of Pickle .
Pickle Name Meaning
English: habitational name probably from a minor locality in Thornton (Bradford Yorkshire) called in Middle English Pykedlee or Pighkeleys and composed of piked ‘pointed having a narrow corner’ and either ley(s) (Old English lēah) ‘clearing(s)’ or leys (Old English lǣs) ‘pasture meadowland’. Altered form of German Pickel .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Nickles, Picken, Nickless, Rickles, Pickle, Pickrel, Wickes, Ickes
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Walbank Name Meaning
See Wallbank .
Wallbank Name Meaning
From a lost place called Wallbank in Darwen (Lancs) which is recorded as Walbonk in 1461 (Lancs Record Office). The origin of the place-name cannot be certain without a greater number of medieval forms though it may derive from Middle English walle ‘wall’ or welle walle ‘well spring stream’ + banke ‘bank slope’.
Source:
The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
Similar surnames:
Albany, Albano, Alban, Walbeck, Galban, Albani, Wiltbank, Wallack
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Pridmore Name Meaning
English (Rutland): altered form of Middle English Prudmay a nickname from prud ‘proud’ + mey ‘male relative’ or may ‘maiden virgin young woman’ (perhaps in jest or ironically of a man).
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Tidmore, Skidmore, Cudmore, Whitmore, Patmore, Predmore, Primo
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Pugh Name Meaning
Welsh: Anglicized form of the patronymic ap Hugh ‘son of Hugh’ (see Hughes ).
Hughes Name Meaning
English and Welsh: variant of Hugh with genitival or excrescent -s. Irish and Scottish: adopted as an equivalent of Gaelic surnames based on the personal name Aodh ‘fire’ for example Ó hAodha Mac Aodha; see McCoy and compare McHugh .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Bugh, Hugh, Pough, Paugh, Rush, Peugh, Puff, Rugg, Ruth, Ruge
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Radcliffe Name Meaning
English: variant of Ratliff .
Ratliff Name Meaning
English (Suffolk): habitational name from one or more of the places so named such as Radcliffe (Lancashire) Radcliffe on Trent and Ratcliffe on Soar (both Nottinghamshire) Radclive (Buckinghamshire) Ratcliffe Culey and Ratcliffe on the Wreake (both Leicestershire) Ratclyffe in Clyst Hydon Ratcliffes in Thorverton and Ratcliffes in Broad Clyst (all Devon) Ratcliff in Stepney (Middlesex) and Rackley in Compton Bishop (Somerset). The placenames derive from Old English rēad ‘red’ + clif ‘cliff bank steep slope’ (see also Rutley ). A family of the name Radcliffe trace their descent from Sir Nicholas de Radclyffe. He is said to have been a knight who held the major of Radcliffe in Lancashire and served Roger de Poitou Baron de Marsey in the 11th century.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Radcliff, Ratcliffe, Rackliffe, Ratliffe, Rackliff, Ratliff, Cliffe
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Rhodes Name Meaning
English:: either a topographic name for someone who lived by ‘(the) woodland clearings’ plural form of Middle English rode (Old English rod rodu) or a habitational name for someone who came from a place so named principally Rhodes in Bury (Lancashire) or possibly from one of the many minor places in Yorkshire similarly named or Rhodes Minnis (Kent). The Yorkshire name sometimes alternates with the singular form (see Rhode and Rode ). The Rh- spelling was introduced in the 16th and 17th centuries by clerks with a classical education who associated the name with the Greek island of Rhodes famous in ancient history and mythology. There is also no connection with modern English road (Old English rād ‘riding’) which was not used to denote a thoroughfare until the 16th century. The surname is particularly common in Yorkshire and Lancashire but occurs with various spellings in smaller numbers widely across England. variant of Rhode with post-medieval excrescent -s.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Rodes, Rode, Rhodus, Lodes, Hodes, Rhode, Roder, Rhone, Hoes, Rhoades
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Riley Name Meaning
English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): habitational name chiefly from High Ryley in Accrington (Lancashire) and Riley in Kirkburton which was in the manor of Wakefield (Yorkshire). In some cases the name may derive from Riley Farm in Eyam (Derbyshire) Royley in Royton (Lancashire) or Rylah in Scarcliffe (Derbyshire). The placenames all come from Old English rȳge ‘rye’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. Irish: from Ó Raghailligh ‘descendant of Raghailleach’ Old Irish Roghallach. This is the name of a chieftain family in Cavan related to the O'Rourkes. In Anglicized form it has also been confused with Ó Raithile found in Munster usually Anglicized as O'Rahilly or Rahilly . See O'Reilly .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Ridley, Ripley, Risley, Iley, Wiley, Ryley, Brimley, Rilea, Reiley
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Roberts Name Meaning
English: from the personal name Robert with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This surname is also occasionally borne by Jews presumably as an Americanized form of some similar (like-sounding) Jewish surname.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Robert, Mcroberts, Roberto, Robertson, Gobert, Roberti, Rewerts
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Robson Name Meaning
English: patronymic from the Middle English personal name Rob(be) (see Robb ) a pet form of Robert + -son.
Robb Name Meaning
English Scottish and northern Irish: from the Middle English and Older Scots personal name Robb(e) a pet form of Robert . See also Robbie .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Hobson, Robeson, Dobson, Robison, Robin, Rosson, Rapson, Ronson
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts