Estes is an ancient Latin word for meaning "supper or dinner. Some peoples, especially not of the Mediterranean race have been known to use this word as a surname name with a different pronunciation.
The name "Estes" has its roots in ancient Greece. It comes from the Greek "esthesis", which means "sensation" or "perception."
Sources of female form:
Notable people with the surname include:
- Addie Garwood Estes, U.S. temperance activist
- Billie Sol Estes, Texas businessman and politician
- Bob Estes, U.S. professional golf player
- Eleanor Estes, U.S. children's author
- James A. Estes U.S. ecologist
- Jim Estes, U.S. golfer
- John Estes, U.S. football player
- John Adam Estes, also known as "Sleepy John" Estes, U.S. blues musician
- John Curtis Estes, birth name of adult film star John Holmes
- Patrick Estes, U.S. football player
- Richard Estes, U.S. photorealist painter
- Richard Dean Estes, paleoherpetologist
- Richard Despard Estes, biologist
- Rob Estes, U.S. actor
- Ron Estes, U.S. congressman from Kansas
- Shawn Estes, Major League Baseball player
- Simon Estes, U.S. bass-baritone singer
- Vernon Estes, U.S. businessman
- Wayne Estes, U.S. basketball player
- Will Estes, U.S. actor
- William Kaye Estes, U.S. mathematical psychologist
- W.W. Estes, U.S. businessman and farmer
- Yusuf Estes, U.S. minister
Estes is also less frequently found as a given name, mostly used in the US as a male name. But there are occurrences of use as female name too. Therefore, it is considered unisex. For example, Czech Republic has accepted this name. There is just one, though.
The name Romero is a nickname type of surname for a Roman or an Italian. The name was originally derived from the Latin word Romaeus and the Greek word Romaios, which mean Roman.
- A person on a religious journey or pilgrimage from Rome
Todd is a surname meaning "fox". It is an English and Scottish surname, but probably originated in Scotland for someone thought to resemble a fox in personality or perhaps more obviously in having red hair. This name was brought to Ulster, Ireland. It may refer to:
Bader is a German occupational surname derived from the German word "Bad" meaning "bath". It originally referred to the owners or attendants of bathhouses, who subsequently took on other tasks including cutting hair and dentistry.
Graham is a surname of Scottish and English origin. It is typically an Anglo-French form of the name of the town of Grantham, in Lincolnshire, England. The settlement is recorded in the 11th century Domesday Book variously as Grantham, Grandham, Granham and Graham. This place name is thought to be derived from the Old English elements grand, possibly meaning "gravel", and ham, meaning "hamlet" the English word given to small settlements of smaller size than villages.
Ochoa is a Spanish surname of Basque origin common throughout Spain, France, the Americas, and the Philippines. It is a surname of patronymic origin; it was originally a given name in Medieval Spain.
Daly is an Irish surname, derived from the Gaelic Ó Dálaigh. Notable people with the surname include:
Scott is a surname of Scottish origin. It is first attributed to Uchtredus filius Scoti who is mentioned in the charter recording the foundation of Holyrood Abbey and Selkirk in 1120, the border Riding clans who settled Peeblesshire in the 10th century and the family lineage of the Duke of Buccleuch.
Randall is a surname of English and Irish origin. It is a cognate of the name Randolph meaning "shield-wolf", composed of rand "shield" plus úlfr "wolf". In Ireland, Randall may be an anglicized form of the Gaelic Mac Raghnaill meaning "son of Raghnall".
As a given name, Cory is used by both males and females. It is a variation of the name Cora, meaning "(the) Maiden", which is a title of the goddess Persephone. The name also can have origins from the Gaelic word coire, which means "in a cauldron", or "in a hollow".
Jacobson is an English language patronymic surname meaning "son of Jacob". The prefix is an Ashkenazic variation of the Latin Jacobus, itself derived from the Hebrew language given name Yaakov. The suffix, -son denotes "son/descendant of". There are several variants. The earliest record of the surname is found in Cambridgeshire in 1273.
Giannopoulos, Yannopoulos, Yiannopoulos,Gianopoulos or Gianopulos, variously transliterated from the Greek: Γιαννόπουλος, is a Greek family name, which means "son of John". The female version of the name is Giannopoulou/Yiannopoulou (Γιαννοπούλου). Notable people with this name include:
Lavery, also spelled Lowry, Lowrie, Lory, Lavoy and Lowery, is an Irish surname derived from the Gaelic Ó Labhradha, meaning the "descendants of Labhradha".
Lynn is a surname of Irish origin, English, Welsh or Scottish. It has a number of separate derivations:
Horne is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
English is an English surname.
Kline is a surname. Notable people with the surname include the following:
Farmer is an English surname. Although an occupationally derived surname, it was not given to tillers of the soil, but to collectors of taxes and tithes specializing in the collection of funds from agricultural leases. In 2000, there were 68,309 people with the last name Farmer in the United States, making it the 431st most common last name in the nation.
Richard can be a surname. Variations include: Ricard, Riccard(s), Richard(s), Ritchard, Richardson, Richardsson, Ricquart, Rijkaard, Rickaert, Ryckewaert
Rivero is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Downey is an Irish surname that means in English “belonging to a fort”. The name is found from ancient times in areas of Ireland's modern County Galway, southwest Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Ulster and Leinster and is believed to be the surname of three distinct families. In Ulster, Downey were the chiefs of the Ulaid petty-kingdom of Cinel Amhalgaidh, now known in the Anglicised form as Clanawley in County Down.
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