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Harling Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Harling in Norfolk. The placename means ‘(settlement of) the people of Herela’ from an Old English personal name Herela + the Old English groupname suffix -ingas. English: variant of Harlin . North German: habitational name from any of several places so named from a derivative of an ancient Germanic personal name with the first element hari heri ‘army’. German (Härling): nickname for an immature person from Old High German herling ‘(sour) grape harvested before maturity’.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Harting, Halling, Helling, Arling, Haring, Darling, Harding, Harring
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Hattersley Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): habitational name from Hattersley (Cheshire). The placename may derive from a shortened form of Old English hēah-dēor ‘stag deer’ (genitive hēah-dēores) + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Eckersley, Adderley, Satterlee, Battersby, Tattersall, Tankersley
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Hornby Name Meaning
English (northern): habitational name from any of several places so called including Hornby near Tunstall (North Yorkshire) Hornby in Great Smeaton (North Yorkshire) Hornby (Lancashire) or Hornby Hall in Brougham (Westmorland). The North Yorkshire placenames probably derive from the Old Norse personal name Horni + Old Norse bȳ ‘farmstead village’ while the Lancashire and Westmorland placenames probably derive from Old Norse horn ‘horn-shaped piece of land river bend’ + bȳ.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Hornsby, Corby, Horney, Horn, Holtby, Torney, Barnaby, Sorby, Norby
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Jeff Name Meaning
English (West Midlands and northern England): from the personal name Geff a pet form of Geoffrey; see Jeffrey . Native American: adoption of the personal name Jeff (which can be of the same English origin as 1 above or a short form of the surname Jefferson used as a personal name) as a surname.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Jeffs, Reff, Neff, Steff, Leaf, Boff, Huff, Luff, Jean, Reiff
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Kirby Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of numerous places in northern and eastern England called Kirby or Kirkby from Old Norse kirkja ‘church’ + bȳ ‘farmstead village’. Irish: adopted for Ó Garmhaic ‘descendant of Cíarmhac’ a personal name meaning ‘dark son’. Compare Kerwick . Irish: Anglicized form of Mac Geirble ‘son of Geirble’ a personal name of uncertain origin. The name is preserved in the townland name of Carrowkeribly in County Mayo. Americanized form of French Corbeil or of its cognate Corbeille which is in North America (also) an altered form of the former name.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Irby, Kilby, Corby, Wilby, Furby, Bigby, Kirkeby, Wisby, Carby, Kibby
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Render Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire): occupational name from a shortened form of Middle English renderer renderour a derivative of Middle English renden ‘to tear lacerate butcher (a carcass)’ probably denoting a butcher. German: probably a habitational name for someone from Renda in Hesse.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Bender, Reder, Reader, Renner, Rendel, Pender, Reeder, Reider, Redder
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Stothart Name Meaning
See Stoddart . see Stothard .
Stoddart Name Meaning
English (Durham and Cumberland) and Scottish (Midlothian and Lanarkshire): variant of Stoddard .
Stothard Name Meaning
For a keeper of cattle or horses from Middle English stot ‘steer bullock’ or ‘horse’ + herd(e) ‘herdsman’. The name was probably confused with Stodeherd ‘keeper of stud-horses’ so some examples may alternatively belong at (2). see Stoddart .
Source:
The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Moothart, Stobart, Smithart, Stoddart, Stewart, Stoddard, Stott
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Stott Name Meaning
English: nickname from Middle English stott ‘bullock steer’ denoting someone who resembled a bullock in build or temperament or perhaps for someone who had charge of bullocks. The term was also occasionally used in Middle English of a horse or heifer (and so as a term of abuse for a woman) and it survived into the 19th century as a dialect word for a clumsy stupid person. The name may have been confused with Stout .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Slott, Stock, Shott, Stout, Stone, Shutt, Ott, Storm, Tout, Schott
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Swiers Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire): variant of Swires . Dutch: patronymic from the personal name Swier .
Swires Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire): variant of Swire with post-medieval excrescent -s.
Swier Name Meaning
Dutch: from a personal name of ancient Germanic origin Sweder Sweer Swier composed of the elements swinth ‘strong fast’ + hari heri ‘army’.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Swier, Sweers, Zwiers, Spiers, Shiers, Siers, Stiers, Swyers, Wiers
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Whitehouse Name Meaning
English (West Midlands especially Staffordshire): topographic name for someone who lived in a white house from Middle English whit ‘white’ + hous ‘house’ or a habitational name from a place called with these elements as for example Whittas in Cumbria. Alternatively a variant of Whittles .
Whittles Name Meaning
English (northern): nickname from Middle English whit ‘white’ + hals ‘neck’.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Stonehouse, Brickhouse, Waterhouse, Hillhouse, Wheelhouse, Whitmore
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts