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Snowden Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the many minor places called from hills where the snow lay long (Old English snāw ‘snow’ + dūn ‘hill’). In Yorkshire the name is either from High and Low Snowden in Askwith (Yorkshire) or Snowden Hill in Hunshelf while in Devon the name is probably from Snowdon in Buckfastleigh or Snowdon in Rattery. The precise sources of the name in other counties have not been identified. Snow End in Anstey (Hertfordshire) recorded as Snowdon in 1362 is a possibility but it is not known if it gave rise to a surname. Compare Sneddon .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Snowdon, Bowden, Rowden, Cowden, Howden, Crowden, Plowden, Norden
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Stringer Name Meaning
English:: occupational name from Middle English strenger stringer ‘man who worked at a string-hearth or furnace’ synonymous with Stringfellow . The name occurs frequently in districts where iron was smelted in medieval times. occupational name for someone who made or worked with string from Middle English strenger stringer an agent derivative of Middle English streng(e) string(e) ‘string cord’ (Old English streng). The term was also used of someone who made strings for bows in 1420.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Springer, String, Slinger, Stanger, Strenger, Striker, Stranger
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Taylor Name Meaning
English Scottish and Irish: occupational name for a tailor from Anglo-Norman French Middle English taillour ‘tailor’ (Old French tailleor tailleur; Late Latin taliator from taliare ‘to cut’). The surname is extremely common in Britain and Ireland. In North America it has absorbed equivalents from other languages many of which are also common among Ashkenazic Jews for example German Schneider and Hungarian Szabo . It is also very common among African Americans. In some cases also an Americanized form of French Terrien ‘owner of a farmland’ or of its altered forms such as Therrien and Terrian .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Aylor, Saylor, Naylor, Paylor, Tailor, Tallon, Kaylor, Meylor, Tabor
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Topham Name Meaning
English (mainly northern especially Yorkshire):: nickname from Middle English Toppan of uncertain meaning. The second element is perhaps Middle English pan(ne) ‘(crown of the) head’ while Top- could be derived from several different words. If from Middle English toppen ‘to shave (the head)’ then Toppan might have been a name for a barber who provided tonsures for the clergy. Alternatively Top- might represent Middle English tup top(pe) ‘ram male sheep’ hence ‘ram-head’ or Middle English top(pe) Anglo-Norman French tupe ‘hair on the head tuft of hair forelock’ denoting someone with a distinctive head of hair. variant of Topping . in Lincolnshire a variant of Tupholme a habitational name from a place so named in Lincolnshire. The placename derives from the Old Norse personal name Tupi or a word of obscure origin from which Middle English tup ‘ram’ derives + Old Norse holmr ‘small island water meadow’. in southern England the name is rare and may be from an unidentified placename there. The placename may derive from Old English topp ‘top hill top’ + hām ‘village homestead’ but this cannot be certain.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Popham, Tatham, Lapham, Mepham, Gorham, Upham, Gotham, Hotham, Higham
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Waller Name Meaning
English: occupational name from Middle English waler waliere walour waller ‘builder of walls mason’. English: in Sussex perhaps a topographic name for someone who lived by a prominent wall. English: topographic name for someone who lived by a spring stream or man-made well from Middle English waller a derivative of Middle English walle Old English wælle wælle. It is a West Midlands dialect form of Weller . South German: nickname from Middle High German wallære ‘traveler roamer pilgrim’. Swedish (rarely Wallér): topographic or ornamental name composed of a variant of the element vall ‘grassy bank pasture’ (see Wall ) + the suffix -er (from German) or -ér (a derivative of Latin -erius).
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Weller, Galler, Woller, Kaller, Walker, Walder, Haller, Faller
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Walshaw Name Meaning
English: habitational name from either of two places in northern England called Walshaw in Briercliffe (Lancashire) or in Wadsworth (Yorkshire). The Lancashire placename derives from Old English wælla wella ‘spring stream well’ + sceaga ‘copse’. The first element of the Yorkshire placename is Old English walh ‘Welshman’ (genitive wala).
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Warshaw, Bagshaw, Ramshaw, Walsh, Walstad, Capshaw, Bashaw, Latshaw
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Abbott Name Meaning
English and Scottish: from Middle English abbott ‘abbot’ (Old English abbod) or Old French abet ‘priest’. Both the Old English and the Old French term are derived from Late Latin abbas ‘priest’ (genitive abbatis), from Greek abbas, from Aramaic aba ‘father’. This was an occupational name for someone employed in the household of or on the lands of an abbot, and perhaps also a nickname for a sanctimonious person thought to resemble an abbot. In the U.S. this name is also sometimes a translation of a cognate or equivalent European name, e.g. Italian Abate, Spanish Abad, or German Abt.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
Similar surnames:
Bott, Ott, Tabbert, Mabbitt, Bolt, Brott, Boot, Schott, Babbitt
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Baxter Name Meaning
English: occupational name from Middle English baxter ‘baker’ (from Old English bæcestre ‘baker’ earlier ‘female baker’ the feminine equivalent of bæcere). Compare Baker .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Bater, Baker, Balter, Balmer, Paster, Barber, Easter, Cater, Banter
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Dales Name Meaning
English (Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire): variant of Dale with post-medieval excrescent -s. Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): nickname for a needy person from Hebrew dalus ‘poverty’.
Dale Name Meaning
English: from Middle English dal dale daile ‘dale valley’ (Old English dæl reinforced in northern England by the cognate Old Norse dalr) a topographic name for someone who lived in a valley or a habitational name from any of numerous minor places called with this word such as Dale in Cumbria and Yorkshire. Norwegian: habitational name from a common farm named from Old Norse dali the dative case of dalr ‘valley’. Americanized form of German Diehl . Americanized form of Swedish Norwegian or German Dahl . Dutch: variant without the preposition van ‘from’ of Van Dale .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Hale, Gale, Sale, Vale, Dole, Wale, Dane, Dal, Dahle, Kale
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Hammond Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin): from the Middle English Old French personal name Ha(i)mon the oblique case form of the ancient Germanic Ha(i)mo a short form of various compound names beginning with haim ‘home’. It frequently developed excrescent -d giving Hamond Haimund and Hawmond. Alternatively the name could derive from the Middle English personal name Hamund (Old Norse Hámundr composed of the elements hár ‘high’ + mund ‘protection’) which may have been used in Normandy and in 12th-century eastern England but the former explanation is more likely. The surname was sometimes confused with Almond and Ammon . English: in the Bradford area of Yorkshire the name is a shortened form of Ormondroyd formerly Hamondesrode from a lost place in Birstall (Yorkshire) named with the Middle English (Old French) personal name Hamon (1 above) + Middle English roid a southern Yorkshire pronunciation of Old English rod ‘clearing’. Irish: generally an importation from England but occasionally an adopted name for Mac Ámoinn see McCammon .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Haymond, Raymond, Gaumond, Hammen, Ammon, Aymond, Harmon, Ramson
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts