Cookson is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Stephenson is a medieval patronymic surname meaning "son of Stephen". The earliest public record is found in the county of Huntingdonshire in 1279. There are variant spellings including Stevenson. People with the surname include:
McKinnon, MacKinnon or Mackinnon is a Scottish surname.,
McMullen is a surname with predominantly Irish origins but also with some Scottish history. It derives from root forenames such as: Maolain, Maelan "Hillock" and Meallain "Pleasant". All of these forenames have over time evolved to the collateral "Son of Maolain", anglicised McMullen.
Butt is a German and an English surname whose origins lie in the South West peninsula region of England.
Bullard is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Arthur is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Bird is an English surname, probably deriving from the vertebrates of the same name. Another common variant of this surname is "Byrd."
Lea is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Humphries is a surname, and may refer to:
Parkin is a surname, and may refer to
Spence is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Cathcart is a Surname of Scottish origin. Notable people with the surname include:
Grainger is a surname of English origin. It is a variant of the surname Granger, which is an occupational name for a farm bailiff. The farm bailiff oversaw the collection of rent and taxes from the barns and storehouses of the lord of the manor. This officer's Anglo-Norman title was grainger, and Old French grangier, which are both derived from the Late Latin granicarius.
The surname Newton is a toponymic surname, derived from the common place name "New-town". "As nearly every county has its ... Newton," there are many independent families that share this surname.
Bowie is a Scottish and Irish surname. The name can be derived from the Gaelic nickname buidhe, meaning "yellow", "fair-haired". The surname can also be an Anglicised form of the Irish surname Ó Buadhaigh; this surname means "descendant of Buadhach" and is also rendered as Bogue and Boyce. The personal name Buadhach means "victorious". The surname Bowie is rendered in Scottish Gaelic as Buidheach (masculine) and Bhuidheach (feminine), as well as Mac'IlleBhuidhe (masculine) and Nic'IlleBhuidhe (feminine). Early instances of the surname in Scotland, recorded in 1481, are: Boye, Bowy, and Boee.
Speakman is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Sparkes is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Low is an English and Scottish surname. It is also a common surname found among Overseas Chinese communities around the world. Notable people with the surname include:
Curran is an Irish surname.
Maynard is a Norman/Germanic/English surname meaning "strength, hardy".