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Barrett Name Meaning
English and Irish (of Norman origin): probably a nickname for a quarrelsome person from Old French barat Middle English bar(r)at bar(r)et(te) ‘trouble distress’ later ‘deception fraud; contention strife’. Through Norman settlement it also became common in Ireland where it was Gaelicized as Baróid (Munster) and Baréid (Connacht).
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Barre, Berrett, Barnett, Garret, Barreto, Parrett, Garnett, Barlett
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Burrill Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire and Lincolnshire): variant of Burrell .
Burrell Name Meaning
English:: nickname from Middle English Old French burel borel (also birel) ‘reddish brown’ referring perhaps to complexion or hair color. This was occasionally used by Normans as a personal name perhaps a nickname substituted for the personal name. The word also denoted a coarse woollen cloth of this color so the surname may sometimes refer to dress or it may be a nickname for a maker of the cloth a bureller. habitational name from Burwell in Lincolnshire see Burwell .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Murrill, Turrill, Harrill, Borrell, Morrill, Burell, Burchill
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Busfield Name Meaning
See Bousfield
Source:
The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
Bousfield Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Bousfield in Orton (Westmorland). The placename derives from Old English boga or Old Norse bogi ‘bow’ in the sense ‘curving hillside’ with a Middle English genitive singular ending -es + Old Norse fjall fell ‘mountain hill’.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Burfield, Bonfield, Barfield, Byfield, Belfield, Banfield, Hosfield
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Coverdale Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire and Durham): habitational name from Coverdale in the North Yorkshire ‘in the valley (Middle English dale) of the Cover river (a Celtic name)’.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Cheadle, Overly, Overall, Iredale, Courage, Corral, Coverdell
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Darnbrough Name Meaning
See Darnbrook .
Darnbrook Name Meaning
From Darnbrook on Malham Moor in WR Yorks.
Source:
The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
Similar surnames:
Yarbrough, Darrough, Malbrough, Stanbrough, Fambrough, Hansbrough
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Davidson Name Meaning
Scottish northern English and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from the personal name David + -son. As a Jewish name the last element comes from German Sohn ‘son’. Irish (Down) and Scottish: adopted for Gaelic Mac Daibhéid ‘son of David’; see McDevitt . Americanized form (and a rare Swedish variant) of Swedish Davidsson: patronymic from the personal name David . Americanized form of Norwegian Danish and North German Davidsen a cognate of 3 above.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Davidsen, Davisson, Davison, David, Davids, Arvidson, Davidoff
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Dickson Name Meaning
Scottish and northern English: patronymic from the Middle English personal name Dick + son.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Wickson, Dickinson, Rickson, Hickson, Nickson, Jackson, Dicks
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Dracup Name Meaning
Unexplained but apparently from a lost or as yet unidentified place; see Redmonds Dictionary of Yorks Surnames (https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/_/PhhJjwEACAAJ?hl=en)
Source:
The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
Similar surnames:
Drach, Draus, Drerup, Dacus, Raup, Drace, Dragon, Drake, Grau, Drain
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Emsley Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire): habitational name possibly from Emley (Yorkshire) Elmley (Worcestershire) or Elmsleigh (Gloucestershire). Emley (Yorkshire) is possibly named with an Old English personal name Emma or Old English elm ‘elm-tree’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. The latter two are both named with Old English elm + lēah. Scottish: variant of Emslie .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Hemsley, Emley, Easley, Ensley, Eisley, Mosley, Insley, Pasley
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Etheridge Name Meaning
English:: from the Middle English personal name Etherich a variant of Old English Æthelrīc (see Aldridge ). sometimes perhaps a variant of Edridge from the Middle English personal name Edrich Edrick (Old English Ēadrīc from ēad ‘prosperity’ + rīc ‘powerful’).
Aldridge Name Meaning
English:: from the Middle English personal names Alrich or Elrich and Aldrich or Eldrich representing any one of three Old English personal names Æthelrīc Ælfrīc and Ealdrīc formed respectively from æthel- ‘noble’ ælf ‘elf sprite’ and (e)ald ‘old honored’ + rīc ‘ruler’. habitational name from Aldridge (Staffordshire) Aldridge Grove in Hampden (Buckinghamshire) or from a similarly named unidentified place in the West Midlands recorded in Domesday Book as Alrewic from Old English alor ‘alder’ + wīc ‘specialized farmstead’.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Betteridge, Everidge, Gutridge, Attridge, Herridge, Leftridge
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts