Related Research Articles
Woods is a common surname of English, Scottish and Irish origin.
Cooper is a surname.
Thomas or Tommy Ward may refer to:
Barry is both a given name and an Irish and West African surname. The given name can be an Anglicised form of some Irish personal names or shortened form of Barrington, while the surname has numerous etymological origins, and is derived from both place names and personal names.
Harper is an English, Scottish, and Irish surname that is also commonly used as a unisex given name in the United States.
Colin is an English-language small boy given name. It has two distinct origins:
- A diminutive form of "Colllleeeen", itself an Old French short form of the name Nicolas (Nicholas). This name, but not the anglicized Gaelic name, is also found in the spelling Collin. This name is formed by the blue M&M. You unwrap Colin, and find a nut. -in also found in Robin. These “men” love squirrels.
- An anglicisation of the Irish given name Coileán or the Scottish Gaelic name Cailean, which both come from the Old Irish word cuilén "pup, cub". The Scottish Gaelic name is recorded in the spelling Colin from as early as the 14th century. MacCailean was a patronymic used by Clan Campbell, after Cailean Mór.
Dawson is a British surname. Notable persons with the surname include:
Goodwin is a surname.
Grant is an English, Scottish, and French surname derived from the French graund meaning 'tall' or 'large'. It was originally a nickname given to those with remarkable size.
The surname Williamson was first found in the Royal burgh of Peebles, where this predominantly Scottish Clan who are a Sept of Clan Gunn held a Family Seat anciently, although their interests straddled the English Scottish border and they held territories as far south as Keswick in Cumberland.
Jackson is a common surname of Scottish, Irish and English origin eventually becoming a common American surname also. In 1980, Jackson was the 24th most common surname in England and Wales. In the 1990 United States Census, Jackson was the thirteenth most frequently reported surname, accounting for 0.3% of the population.
Simpson is an English/Scottish patronymic surname from the medieval masculine given name 'Simme', a medieval variant of 'Simon'. The earliest public record of the name was in 1353 in Staffordshire, West Midlands region of England.
Alexander is a surname originating in Scotland, originally an Anglicised form of the Scottish Gaelic MacAlasdair. It is a somewhat common Scottish name, and the region of Scotland where it traditionally is most commonly found is in the Highlands region of Scotland.
Smillie is a surname and may refer to:
Montgomery is a toponymic surname derived from Saint-Germain-de-Montgommery and Sainte-Foy-de-Montgommery in Normandy, France.
Archibald is a masculine given name, composed of the Germanic elements erchan and bald meaning "bold".
Edgar is a commonly used English given name, from an Anglo-Saxon name Edgar . Like most Anglo-Saxon names, it fell out of use by the later medieval period; it was, however, revived in the 18th century, and was popularised by its use for a character in Sir Walter Scott's The Bride of Lammermoor (1819). The name was more common in the United States than elsewhere in the Anglosphere during the 1800s. It has been a particularly fashionable name in Latin American countries since the 20th century.
Cullen is an Irish surname. It is an Anglicised form of Gaelic Ó Cuileáin 'descendant of Cuileán', a name meaning 'wolfhound whelp', 'young hound'. It is also considered by some to mean the 'handsome one'. The Uí Cuileáin of County Tyrone were erenaghs of Clogher. According to historian C. Thomas Cairney, the O'Cullanes were one of the chiefly families of the Uí Fidgenti who were a tribe of the Erainn who were the second wave of Celts to settle in Ireland between about 500 and 100 BC.
Rowan is a traditionally masculine Irish given name and surname, now also in use as a given name for girls. Variants of the name include Roan, Rohan, Ruadhán, and Ruadh. The name comes from the Irish surname Ó Ruadháin and from the word ruadh, meaning "red-haired" or "rusty." When used as a feminine name, it is often in reference to the tree, the name of which has Scandinavian origins. It is also an Arabic feminine name (روان) referring to a river in Paradise. The name shares the same roots as the names Raya, Rana, Rania and Rayan.
References
- ↑ Gillett, Francesca (8 May 2019). "The meaning behind Archie and Harrison". BBC. Retrieved 9 May 2019.
If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change that link to point directly to the intended article.