Bradley is an English surname derived from a placename meaning "broad wood" or "broad meadow" in Old English.
Wiśniewski is the third most common surname in Poland. It is a toponymic surname derived from any of locations named Wiśniewa, Wiśniewo, Wiśniowa, Wiśniew. It is related to the following surnames in other languages:
Read is a surname of English origins.
Abramowicz, Abramovich, Abramowitz, and Abramovitz are variant spellings of a name meaning "son of Abraham" among Slavic language speaking peoples; it is a common surname among Ashkenazi Jews, for whom it is commonly Hebraized to Ben-Avraham (בן-אברהם) upon immigration to Israel.
McLennan, MacLennan, and Maclennan are surnames derived from the Scottish Gaelic Mac Gille Fhinnein. Notable people with the surname include:
Adamson is an English patronymic surname meaning "son of Adam". It is rare as a given name, although there has been a tradition in some families for the first-born son to be called Adam. People with the surname Adamson include:
Hynes is a surname, many examples of which originate as the anglicisation the Irish name Ó hEidhin.
The surname Burns has several origins. In some cases, it derived from the Middle English or Scots burn, and originated as a topographic name for an individual who lived by a stream. In other cases the surname is a variant form of the surname Burnhouse, which originated as a habitational name, derived from a place name made up of the word elements burn and house. In other cases the surname Burns originated as a nickname meaning "burn house". In other cases, the surname Burns is an Anglicised form of the Irish Ó Broin, which means "descendant of Bran". In some cases the surname Burns is an Americanized form of the Jewish surname Bernstein, which is derived from the German bernstein ("amber").
Pott is a surname of Old English origin, which is a variant of Potts. The surname Pott may refer to:
Upton is a surname of English origin and a rarely used given name. At the time of the British Census of 1881 Upton Surname at Forebears, the frequency of the surname Upton was highest in Sussex, followed by Oxfordshire, Leicestershire, Staffordshire, Nottinghamshire, Warwickshire, Kent, Bedfordshire and Derbyshire. The name Upton is a variation of Upperton and is derived from the Old English for Upper Ton, Upper Enclosure or Upper Field.
Siebert is a surname derived from the Germanic personal name composed of the elements sigi ‘victory’ + berht ‘bright’, ‘famous’.
Pavlík is a Czech and Slovak surname. Notable people with the surname include:
According to the Dictionary of American Family Names, "Serafini" is a plural form of the surname "Serafino", which itself is an Italian given name. According to one website, the surname's origin dates to 400 B.C. There has been a suggestion that "Serafini" was a baptismal name rather than a surname in at least some cases in the 17th century.
Abbey is an English surname, denoting someone living near an abbey or having an occupation working in one. Surname variants of Abbey include Abbay (below), Abbe, Abby, Abdey and Abdie.
Kellogg is an English surname which may refer to:
Potts is a surname of English origin. The word potts refers to circular hollows in the ground.
Traynor is an English and Irish surname found throughout the world.
Hao is the Mandarin pinyin and Wade–Giles romanization of the Chinese surname written 郝 in Chinese characters. It is listed 77th in the Song dynasty classic text Hundred Family Surnames. As of 2008, it is the 82nd most common surname in China, shared by 2.7 million people.
Volk is a surname. It means wolf in several Slavic languages, and it refers to people in German. German Volk is the cognate of English folk and related to Fulk, French Foulques, Italian Fulco and Swedish Folke, along with other variants such as Fulke, Foulkes, Fulko, Folco and Folquet. Notable people with the surname include:
Kearney or Kearneys is an Irish surname.
