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Fisher Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a fisherman from Middle English fis(sc)her(e) ‘fisherman’ (Old English fiscere). In North America this surname has absorbed cognates from many other languages including German Fischer and its Slavic(ized) variant Fišer (see Fiser ) Dutch Visser Hungarian Halász (see Halasz ) Italian Pescatore Slovenian Ribič (see Ribic ) and Croatian Ribić or Ribar . English: in a few cases possibly a topographic name for someone who lived near a fish weir on a river from Middle English fis(sc)hwere fisshyar ‘fish weir’ (Old English fiscwer fiscgear) or a habitational name from a place so named such as Fisher in North Mundham Sussex. Irish: translation into English of Gaelic Ó Bradáin ‘descendant of Bradán’ a personal name meaning ‘salmon’. See Braden . Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a fisherman Yiddish fisher (from German Fischer). Americanized form (mistranslation into English) of French Poissant meaning ‘powerful strong vigorous’ but understood as poisson ‘fish’ and assimilated to the more frequent English name. Americanized form (translation into English) of French Poisson ‘fish’ and assimilated to the more frequent English name.7: Native American (Cheyenne): from a mistranslation into English of the Cheyenne personal name Noma'heškeso ‘Little Fish’ from a diminutive of noma'he ‘fish’.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Fishel, Risher, Usher, Fischer, Disher, Fister, Fish, Fiser, Filer
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Frank Name Meaning
German Dutch Scandinavian Slovenian Croatian Czech Slovak Polish Hungarian and Jewish (Ashkenazic): ethnic or habitational name for someone from Franconia (German Franken) a region of southwestern Germany so called from its early settlement by the Franks an ancient Germanic people who inhabited the lands around the River Rhine in Roman times. In the 6th–9th centuries under leaders such as Clovis I (c. 466–511) and Charlemagne (742–814) the Franks established a substantial empire in western Europe from which the country of France takes its name. English (of Norman origin) Dutch and German: from the personal name Frank (Norman French Franco ancient Germanic Franko) in origin an ethnic name for a Frank or from German Franke ‘Frank(ish) Franconian’ (compare 1 above). This also came to be used as an adjective meaning ‘free open-hearted generous’ (Middle English and Old French franc ‘free’ i.e. not a serf or slave) deriving from the fact that in Frankish Gaul only people of Frankish race enjoyed the status of fully free men. As a surname of German origin it is also found (in both possible meanings; see 1 above) in France (Alsace and Lorraine). Compare Franc and Franck .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Franko, Franc, Rank, Franco, Raak, Brank, Frano, Fink, Frink, Crank
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Furniss Name Meaning
English: variant of Furness .
Furness Name Meaning
English: habitational name from the district on the south coast of Cumbria (formerly in Lancashire) earlier Futharnes so named from the genitive case (Futhar) of Old Norse Futh meaning ‘rump’ the name of the peninsula formerly of an island opposite the southern part of this district + Old Norse nes ‘headland nose’. English (of Norman origin): occasionally perhaps a variant of Furneaux (see Furnace ). The two names were sometimes confused. Norwegian: old variant of Furnes (and in North America probably also an altered form of this) a habitational name from any of various farms particularly in Møre og Romsdal named Furnes from Old Norse fura ‘pine’ + nes ‘headland’.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Furnish, Curtiss, Furnas, Forness, Ferriss, Durnil, Purkiss, Burriss
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Hannam Name Meaning
English: variant of Hannum .
Hannum Name Meaning
English (Wiltshire):: habitational name from Old Norse afnám ‘newly enclosed plot taken from common or undeveloped land’ a frequent minor placename in northern counties e.g. Avenham Park in Preston (Lancashire) and Aynhems in Rimington (Yorkshire) sometimes with prosthetic H- as in Haynholme in Draughton (Yorkshire). habitational name from Hanham (Gloucestershire) from Old English hānum ‘(at) the stones’ dative plural form of hān ‘stone’. The ending -ham comes by analogy with other placenames with this very common unstressed ending.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Hallam, Hannay, Canham, Haslam, Hanney, Hanna, Annan, Hanas, Handal
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Harkness Name Meaning
Scottish (Dumfriesshire and Lanarkshire): apparently a habitational name from an unidentified place (perhaps in the area of Annandale Dumfriesshire with which the surname is connected in early records). The surname is also established in northern Ireland where it was taken in the 17th century by settlers from Dumfriesshire.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Harness, Garness, Barsness, Barnes, Harker, Holness, Haynes, Harke
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Henson Name Meaning
English: patronymic from the Middle English personal names Hen Hend(e) or Hendy (pet forms of Henry or Hendry ) + son. Compare Henderson . Hendy may also have been derived from Middle English hendy ‘courteous’ used as a personal name (see Hendy ). English: perhaps sometimes a variant of Hainson a patronymic meaning ‘son of Hayne’; see Hain English: in Devon where patronymics in -son rarely originated perhaps a variant of Hingston . Irish (Westmeath): variant of Hampson .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Hanson, Hewson, Benson, Belson, Hannon, Hanlon, Herson, Henkin
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Ingram Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin): from the Anglo-Norman personal name Ingeram (Old French Enguerran Engerran; ancient Germanic Engelramnus Ingelramnus Engelrammus Ingelrammus) from the heroic name-element seen in such names as Ingle + hrafn- ‘raven’.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Ingham, Ingrao, Ingman, Ingrum, Inghram, Engram, Ingold, Bingham
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Kendal Name Meaning
English (northwestern): variant of Kendall .
Kendall Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Kendal in Cumbria which takes its name from the river Kent + Old Norse dalr ‘valley’ or from the valley of the river Kent itself. English (of Welsh origin): from an Anglicized form of the Welsh personal name Cynddelw which was borne by a famous 12th-century Welsh poet. It probably derives from a Celtic word meaning ‘exalted high’ + delw ‘image effigy’.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Kendall, Kenkel, Kanda, Rendahl, Konda, Wendel, Kandel, Sandal
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Long Name Meaning
English and French: nickname for a tall person from Old English lang long Old French long ‘long tall’ (equivalent to Latin longus). Compare Dulong and Lelong . Irish (Ulster and Munster): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Longáin (see Langan ). German: variant of Lang ‘long’ and in North America also an altered form (translation into English) of this. Native American (Navajo): translation into English and shortening of a personal name based on (or just composed of) the word nééz ‘tall long’ (see Nez ). Compare Tallman . Chinese: Mandarin or Cantonese form of the surname 龍 meaning ‘dragon’ in Chinese: (i) from Long (龍) the name of an official during the reign of the legendary Emperor Shun (c. 23rd century BC) in charge of communications between the ordinary people and the emperor. (ii) from the surname Huan Long (豢龍 meaning ‘feeding dragons’). Dong Fu is said to have been endowed with this surname by the legendary Emperor Shun (c. 23rd century BC). Liu Lei who is said to have learned to feed dragons from one of Dong's descendants was endowed with the surname Yu Long (御龍 meaning ‘driving dragons’) by one of the kings of the Xia dynasty (2070–1600 BC). (iii) the surname is borne by some families from the Zang Ge ethnic group in ancient China who lived in present-day Yunan and Guizhou provinces. (iv) the surname is also borne by members of the royal families of the ancient states of Qiemi and Yanqi (Karasahr) located in present-day Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. Chinese: Mandarin or Cantonese form of the surname 隆 meaning ‘prosperous thriving’ or ‘grand magnificent’ in Chinese: (i) from the placename Long (隆) the name of a fief (located in present-day Shandong province) in the state of Lu during the Spring and Autumn period (770–476 BC). (ii) the surname is borne by some families from the Huns during the early Western Han dynasty (202 BC - 25 AD).7: Chinese: Cantonese form of the surname 郎 see Lang 8: Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 農 see Nong .9: Cambodian: written ឡុង of Chinese origin meaning ‘dragon’ (see 5 above).10: Vietnamese: from the Chinese surname 龍 see 5 above.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Tong, Gong, Rong, Lang, Kong, Song, Hong, Ling, Dong, Leng
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Patrick Name Meaning
Irish Scottish and English (of Norman origin): from the Anglo-Norman French Middle English and Older Scots personal name Patrick (Old Irish Patraicc) derived from Latin Patricius ‘son of a noble father member of the patrician class’. This was the name of a Christian saint a 5th-century Romano-Briton who became the apostle and patron saint of Ireland and it was largely as a result of his fame that the personal name was so popular from the Middle Ages onward. In Ireland the surname is usually Scottish in origin from Scottish settlers in Ulster in the 17th century. See also Peden and McPadden derived from pet forms of Old Irish Patraicc. Scottish and Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Scottish and Irish Gaelic Mac Phádraig ‘son of Patrick’. English: variant of Partridge . Irish: shortened form of Fitzpatrick and the now extinct Mulpatrick. Americanized form of Slovak or Rusyn (from Slovakia) Petrík (see Petrik ) and of Ukrainian or Rusyn Petryk . Americanized form of Polish Patrzyk: unexplained.7: American shortened and altered form of Russian Patrikeev: patronymic from the personal name Patrikey derived from Greek Patrikios a cognate of 1 above.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022