Lewicki is a Polish-language surname. The surname may have several origins. It can be a patronymic surname from a diminutive of the Polish given name Lew "Lion" or the nickname Lewek "Left-handed". It can also be derived from either of the towns called Lewiczyn or, as a Jewish surname, from the meaning "of the Levites".
The surname Dove has several origins. In some cases the surname is derived from the Middle English dove ("dove"), which is in turn derived from the Old English dūfe ("dove"), or possibly sometimes the Old Norse dúfa ("dove"). In this way, this surname originated as a nickname for a gentle person, or an occupational name for a person who worked with doves. In some cases, the surname Dove originated from the fact that the Middle English word was also used as a masculine and feminine personal name.
Sýkora is a surname of Czech and Slovak language origin. It is related to the Polish surname Sikora. All are derived from a Slavic word for birds of the Paridae (tit) family which was used as a nickname for a small, agile person.
Mayor is an English and Spanish-language surname with several etymological origins. The English-language name is sometimes a variant spelling of Mayer, and thus derived from the Middle English and Old French mair, maire ; this surname originated from the title of a mayor. The surname Mayor can also be derived from a nickname, derived from the Spanish mayor, meaning "older", borne by the elder of two individuals with the same name. Another origin of the surname is from an occupational name, derived from the Spanish major, meaning "governor", "chief". The surname can also be a Catalan variant of the surname Major, derived from major, meaning "greater", used to denote an elder son of a particular family or an important person. The surname Mayor can also be derived from the Yiddish personal name Meyer, which is derived from the Hebrew language Meir, which in turn means "enlightener".
Biryuk, sometimes transliterated as Biriuk is an East Slavic surname derived from a nickname literally meaning "lone wolf".
Bain or Bains is an English, French, Punjabi (Jatt), and Scottish surname. It may also be a variant form of a German surname.
Gawley is a surname in the English language with several origins: one from a Gaelic name, the other from a German name.
Abyzov or Abyzova is a Russian surname. Variants of this surname include Abysov/Abysova (Абы́сов/Абы́сова), Obyzov/Obyzova (Обы́зов/Обы́зова), and Obysov/Obysova (Обы́сов/Обы́сова).
Kužel is a Czech and Slovak surname, derived from kužel meaning "distaff" or "cone", which originally was a descriptive name for a person with a cone-shaped head, or a nickname for an inconstant person. The name may refer to:
Grosskopf or Großkopf is a German and Yiddish surname, derived from the nickname literally meaning "big head". Notable people with the surname include:
Gaddy is a Scottish surname.
Skok is a Slovenian, Croatian, Belarusian, Ukrainian and Russian surname derived from the Slavic word skok for "leap, jump" or more precisely the Slovene word skočiti for "to jump, to leap" that has its highest density in Slovenia, where it was used in the 15th and 16th century as a nickname for a Christian refugee from the Turks who had fled the territories conquered by the Ottoman Empire to the southeast.
Notable people with the name Skok include:
Corbo is a surname. In Italian language it is derived from the nickname corbo, rook, raven a central southern variant of corvo Notable people with the surname include:
Horning is a German language surname. Like the related Hörning and Hornung it may either be derived from the term hornung and in this case be used as a nickname for someone with a relationship to the month of February or derived from Middle Low German hornink and then used for a person born out of wedlock or a topographic name referring to the hornlike shape of a property.
Notable people with the surname include:
Sladký is a Czech and Slovak surname. It is derived from the Czech–Slovak word sladký for "sweet", originally a nickname for a "pleasant", "agreeable" person. People with the surname include:
Grosz or Grósz is a surname of several possible origins. "Grosz" is a Polish-language surname originally used by Poles and Polish Jews derived either from the nickname from Polish "grosz", a coin, 1/100th of Polish zloty or from Polish spelling of German Groß, meaning "large". Grósz is a Hungarian language spelling of "Groß". Notable people with this surname include:
Adamkus is a Lithuanian surname derived from a nickname, which is a diminutive of the given name Adam. Notable people with this surname include:
Groszek is a Polish and Yiddish surname. The word is a diminutive of grosz, a Polish lesser coin. Therefore, the surname may be an occupational surname for a person dealing with money or a nickname for a wealthy of greedy person.
Sivak is a Slavic-language surname derived from the nickname that refers to a man with gray hair, from the Slavic word sivy, gray, gray-haired.
Corvo is a surname. It is derived from a nickname is the Italian, Portuguese, and Galician, literally meaning "raven" or "rook", from Latin corvus. In Spanish the word has the meaning "crooked bend" The Spanish variant of "raven" is "Cuervo". Notable people with the surname include:
