Heward is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
McPherson is a Scottish surname. It is an Anglicised form of the Gaelic Mac a' Phearsain and Mac a Phearsoin, meaning "son of the parson". Notable people with the surname include:
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.
Stenson is a surname. See "Stinson" for its origin. Notable people with the surname include:
Graham is a surname of Scottish and Irish origin. It is typically a toponymic derived from Grantham. Clan Graham traditionally claimed descent from a chief called Graeme, but the first authentic bearer of the name was William de Grantham, lord of the manor of Grantham, in the twelfth century Scottish highlands. In Ireland, Graham is an anglicized form of Ó Goirmleadhaigh, the principal clan of the Northern Uí Néill’s Cenél Moan in County Tyrone.
Haggerty is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Armstrong is a surname of Scottish borders origin. It derives from a Middle English nickname which meant someone with strong arms. In Ireland the name was adopted as an Anglicization of two Gaelic names from Ulster: Mac Thréinfhir and Ó Labhraidh Tréan. Clan Armstrong is a clan from the border area between England and Scotland. The Scottish Armstrong is reputed to have been originally bestowed by "an antient (sic) king of Scotland" upon "Fairbairn, his armour-bearer" following an act of strength in battle. In the UK this surname is well represented in North East England, Cumbria, Lancashire, Yorkshire, Scottish Borders, Lanarkshire, Ayrshire, Dumfries & Galloway, and Northern Ireland, and in the US it is well represented in the Deep South, and other southern states.
Denman is a surname, and may refer to:
Howard is a common English surname. One source for this surname is with the Gaelic names Ó hOghartaigh and Ó hIomhair. Other origins also exist. The dominant theory pertains to the French personal names Huard and Houard adapted after the Norman Conquest of 1066. It is from a Germanic source similar to Old High German *Hugihard "heart-brave," or *Hoh-ward, literally "high defender; chief guardian." Also probably in some cases a confusion with cognate Anglo-Scandinavian personal name Haward from Hávarðr, which means ha(r) "high" and element varðr, meaning "guardian", and sometimes also with unrelated Hayward. In some rare cases from Old English eowu hierde "ewe herd." In Anglo-Norman the French digramm -ou- was often rendered as -ow- such as couard → coward, tour → tower, flour → flower, etc. The first public record of the surname is dated 1221 in Cambridgeshire. There are several variant surname spellings.
Benfield is an English toponymic surname from one or more of the numerous places in England called Benfield or Binfield. Notable people with this name include:
Trotman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Barron is a Scottish surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Barney is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Buchan is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Sumner is a surname. It originates from the English-language word that is spelled, in modern English, summoner, denoting a person who serves a summons. In Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, one of the characters is a summoner ; a Middle English spelling is Somonour. Other spellings include Sumpner, Somner, and Summoner. Among the notable people with this surname are the following:
Ring is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Mink is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Bright is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Ham or Hahm is a Western and Korean surname.
Coolen is a Dutch patronymic surname. Variant forms are Colen, Kolen and Koolen. Cool and Kool are archaic short forms of the given name Nicolaas. In Canada the name may also have evolved as a modern spelling of Coulon.
Lowman is a surname. People with the surname include: