Schaefer is an alternative spelling and cognate for the German word "Schäfer", meaning shepherd, which itself descends from the Old High German scāphare. Variants "Shaefer", "Schäfer", the additional alternative spelling "Schäffer", and the anglicised forms "Schaeffer", "Schaffer", "Shaffer", "Shafer", and "Schafer" are all common surnames.
Charlton or Charleton is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Pickett is an English surname. It is a variant form of Pigott. Notable people with the surname include:
Donahue is the Americanized version of Irish surname Donohoe, which, in turn, is an Anglicized version of the ancient Irish name "Donnchadh".
Ahearn or Ahearne is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Gagne and Gagné are two distinct French surnames. The name Gagné is more common in France. Gagne is also the name of three minor French rivers. People with these surnames include:
Ferraro is an occupational surname of Italian origin meaning blacksmith in Italian. Notable people with this surname includes:
Dalton is a surname of Norman origin found in Ireland and Britain and places where people from those backgrounds emigrated to. The Hiberno-Norman Dalton sept controlled an area of the Irish midlands following the Norman invasion and assimilation into Ireland. Notable people with the surname include:
Kirby is a surname. Kirby is found in 116 governed bodies in the world, though is most concentrated in the USA (70,753), England (22,162), Australia (7,160), Canada (5,268), and Ireland (1,931) but most prevalent in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (1:1,127). This shows the people with this surname have travelled and become residents in many nations around the world. It originated in Northern England from the Old Norse word kirkja + býr meaning church + settlement or in Southwestern Ireland.
Battle or Battles are surnames that may refer to:
Maxwell is a Scottish surname and is a habitational name derived from a location near Melrose, in Roxburghshire, Scotland. This name was first recorded in 1144, as Mackeswell, meaning "Mack's spring ". The surname Maxwell is also common in Ulster; where it has, in some cases, been adopted as alternate form of the surname Miskell. The surname Maxwell is also used as a Jewish surname, either as an adoption of the Scottish name, or as an Americanization of one of several like-sounding Jewish surnames. The surname Maxwell is represented in Scottish Gaelic as MacSual.
Jeffries is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
McFetridge is a surname, anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mac Pheadruis, patronymic from a Gaelic form of the given name Peter. Notable people with the surname include:
Chiles is a surname, a variation of Childs, from the Anglo-Saxon 'Cild'. Notable people with the surname include:
Brack is an English and German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
As a given name, surname, or nickname, Brick may refer to:
Musgrove is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Charley is an English unisex given name and a surname. As an English given name, it is a diminutive form of Charles and a feminine form of Charlie. Notable people known by this name include the following:
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