Abbey is an English surname, [1] [2] denoting someone living near an abbey or having an occupation working in one. [3] Surname variants of Abbey include Abbay (below), Abbe, Abby (not the given name), Abdey and Abdie. [3]
Notable people with the surname include:
Aubrey is a traditionally male English name. It was quite common in the Middle Ages, but had lost favour for a time before experiencing a resurgence of popularity in the 19th century.
Haines is a surname.
Acker is a surname from German or Old English, meaning "field". It is related to the word "acre" and is the root of the surname Ackerman.
Adcock is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Adam is a surname.
The surname Ray has several origins.
Moses is a surname derived from the Biblical Moses. It can be of either Jewish, Welsh, or English origin. The Hebrew form of the name, Moshe, is probably of Egyptian origin, from a short form of any of various ancient Egyptian personal names, such as Ramesses and Tutmose, meaning "conceived by ". The Arabic form of the name is Musa. However, very early in its history it acquired a folk etymology, being taken as a derivative of the Hebrew root verb mšh, "to draw (something from the water", a reference to the story of the infant Moses being discovered among the bulrushes by Pharaoh's daughter. As a Welsh family name, it was adopted among Dissenter families in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. As a North American family name, it has been an anglicization of foreign forms of the name, such as Moise, Moshe, or Mozes.
The surname Bruce is a British surname of French origin. In Scotland, it is derived from Clan Bruce. In some cases it is derived from the French place name of Briouze in Normandy, while in others it appears to be derived from Brix in Normandy, or Bruz in Brittany, both in France.
Adams is a common surname of English and Scottish origin, derived from the given name Adam. Related surnames include Addams and McAdam/MacAdam.
Acker comes from German or Old English, meaning "ploughed field"; it is related to or an alternate spelling of the word acre. Therefore, Ackermann means "ploughman". Ackerman is also a common Ashkenazi Jewish surname of Yiddish origin with the same meaning. The Ashkenazi surname Ackerman sometimes refers to the town of Akkerman in Bessarabia, south-west of Odessa.
Aaron is a primarily Jewish surname which is derived from the given name Aaron. There are several surname variants including Aarons, Aaronson, and Aron. Not all occurrences of the surname are Jewish.
Allard is a French and English surname. The surname is derived from the given name Adelard.
Furniss is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Kennedy is a unisex given name in the English language. The name is an Anglicised form of a masculine given name in the Irish language.
Crawford is a surname and a given name of English and Scottish origins.
Abraham is a surname. It can be of Jewish, English, French, German, Dutch, Irish, Welsh, Cornish, Breton, Lebanese, Syrian and other origins. It is derived from the Hebrew personal name Avraham, borne by the biblical patriarch Abraham, revered by Jews as a founding father of the Jewish people, and by Muslims as founder of all Semitic peoples. The name is explained in Genesis 17:5 as being derived from the Hebrew av hamon goyim "father of a multitude of nations". It was commonly used as a given name among Christians in the Middle Ages, and has always been a popular Jewish given name. The English name Abram is often a short form of Abraham, but it can also be a shortened version of Adburgham, which comes from a place name. As an Irish name, it was adopted as an approximation of the Gaelic name Mac an Bhreitheamhan "son of the judge". The German name Brahm is often a short form of Abraham, but it can also be a topographic name signifying someone who lived near a bramble thicket. The name Braham has been used as an Anglicization of both Abraham and its patronymic Abrahams by Ashkenazi Jews in the British Isles. Abraham has also been used as an Anglicization of the equivalent Arabic surname Ibrāhīm. It is also found as a given name among Christians in India, and has come to be used as a family name among families from Kerala.
Addy is a surname.
Ackley is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Haynes is a surname.
Hines is both a surname and a given name.