Auch is a family name which has two possible origins, one originating in southern Germany and the other in France.
Ballantine is a surname of Scottish Gaelic origin, with variant spellings Balentyne, Ballantyne, Ballintine, Ballentyne, and Ballendine. Other variants include Bellenden, Ballentine, and Bannatyne.
Doles is a surname with several different origins, French, Czech, and Slovenian. As a name of French origin, it may be a habitational name derived from Dole in the Jura. As a name of Czech origin, the name is a variant of Dolejš meaning "lower". This was used to differentiate the bearers of the same personal name. Doles is considered by some to be a sept name of the Scottish clan Mackintosh, in this case the name is a variant of the surname Dallas.
Blumberg is a surname of German origin. The word is composed of "blum(e)" and "berg", and refers to hilly places covered with flowers. German, Dutch, Scandinavian and anglicized variant spellings are Blumenberg, Blomberg, Bloemberg and Bloomberg. Many with the name are of Ashkenazi descent; its Sephardi equivalent is Montefiore.
The name Weeks is an uncommon English surname, usually either a patronymic of the Middle English Wikke or a topographic or occupational name deriving from Wick. It may also be an Anglification of the Scandinavian habitational name Vik.
Schlecht is a German surname belonging to the group of family names based on a personal characteristic, in this case derived from a nickname originally used for a straightforward person. Like the variant Schlicht it arose before the semantic change of s(ch)le(c)ht/s(ch)li(c)ht from the rather positive "straight", "plain", "simple", "well" to present-day "bad", "evil", "wicked" in the 15th century and may also be habitational in origin, stemming from several small settlements with that name .
Notable people with the name include:
Bain or Bains is an English, French, Punjabi (Jatt), and Scottish surname. It may also be a variant form of a German surname.
Metzner is a German surname, which may have formed from the German word metze, a small dry-measure for grain, or metzjen, the occupational name for a butcher. It is also a habitational name that stems Metz from Lorraine, typically a Jewish name, and from Metzen in Lower Bavaria. The origin of the surname has led to various other related spellings.
Gawley is a surname in the English language with several origins: one from a Gaelic name, the other from a German name.
Leben, and its variant Leban, is a surname with different origins. As a habitation surname, it is derived from the village of Leybourne: ancestors of the Leben surname lived in that village in ancient Anglo-Saxon England.
Longnecker is a surname of Swiss German origin. It is an alternate spelling of Langenecker, a habitational name for a person from any of several places called Langeneck, a name derived from Old High German lang, which means "long", and egga, which means "corner".
Buckingham is an Anglo-Saxon locational surname. It is a habitational name from the former county seat of the county of Buckinghamshire Old English Buccingahamm ‘Water Meadow of the people of (-Inga-) Bucc(A)’. This family originated in England, United Kingdom as a prominent and wealthy British family. The Buckingham family is also a Boston Brahmin family from the U.S. state of Massachusetts, also known as the "first families of Boston". Some members of the family went to New England and arrived in Boston, Massachusetts, coming from England to the region. The Buckingham family had many members who were jurists, politicians, businessmen, military leaders, educators, clergy and authors in both England and United States. Notable people with the surname include:
A toponymic surname or habitational surname or byname is a surname or byname derived from a place name, which included names of specific locations, such as the individual's place of origin, residence, or lands that they held, or, more generically, names that were derived from regional topographic features. Surnames derived from landscape/topographic features are also called topographic surnames, e.g., de Montibus, de Ponte/Da Ponte/Dupont, de Castello, de Valle/del Valle, de Porta, de Vinea.
Lubitz is a German language habitational surname. Notable people with the name include:
The surname Wilhoite is of German origin. This Americanized surname was derived from the German surname Willeit or Wilheit, which is a variant form of Willeitner. The Wilhoite name can trace its origin back to the northern part of the German state of Bavaria. Willeitner, is a habitational name from a more recent adaptation of the place named Weillitnen in northern Bavaria. Willeit is probably a toponymic name from Middle High German wil ‘small settlement’ + leite ‘slope’. The origins of toponymic by-names have been attributed to two non-mutually exclusive trends. One was to link the nobility to their places of origin and their feudal holdings and provide a marker of their status, while the other relates to the growth of the burgher class in the cities, partly via migration from the countryside.
Keillor is a surname of Scottish origin. As of 2016, there were 204 bearers of the surname in the UK. As of 1881, there were 210 people surnamed Keillor in Great Britain, mainly in Angus and Perthshire. Variants of the surname include Keiller, Caylor, and Kaylor.
Kaus is a German language surname. Such as the related Kauss it either belongs to the group of family names derived from a given names – in this case from several compound names of Germanic origin with the element gōʐ "Goth" – or may be a variant of the habitational name Kues. Notable people with the name include:
Essinger is a surname of German origin, originating as a habitational name for someone from any of the places called Essing or Essingen. Notable people with the surname include:
Weisenborn is a surname of German origin, originating as a habitational name for someone from any of numerous places named Weissenborn. Notable people with the surname include:
Streater is a surname of English origin, a variant of Streeter, which is a habitational surname referring to someone who lived on the main street of a village or town, or someone who came from the village of Streat, East Sussex. Notable people with the surname include:
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