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Donaldson is a Scottish and Irish patronymic surname meaning "son of Donald". It is a simpler Anglicized variant for the name MacDonald. Notable people with the surname include:
Beckett is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Benson is a common patronymic surname of English origin meaning "son of Ben". Benson is uncommon as a first name, but quite common as a surname in English speaking countries.
Tait is a Scottish surname which means 'pleasure' or 'delight'. The origins of the name can be traced back as far as 1100.
Welch is a surname that comes from the Old English word welisċ, meaning ‘foreign’.
Lawrence is an English, Scottish and Irish surname. It is derived from Middle English or old French given name Laurence; itself derived from Latin Laurentius. The Oxford dictionaryof family names of Britain lists Laurence and McLaren as variants.
The surname Burns has several origins. In some cases, it derived from the Middle English or Scots burn, and originated as a topographic name for an individual who lived by a stream. In other cases the surname is a variant form of the surname Burnhouse, which originated as a habitational name, derived from a place name made up of the word elements burn and house. In other cases the surname Burns originated as a nickname meaning "burn house". In other cases, the surname Burns is an Anglicised form of the Irish Ó Broin, which means "descendant of Bran". In some cases the surname Burns is an Americanized form of the Jewish surname Bernstein, which is derived from the German bernstein ("amber").
Lowe is a surname. Notable persons with that name include:
Barker is a surname of English origin, meaning "a tanner of leather". Barker may refer to:
Kirby is a surname of Scandinavian then Irish and English origin. Names ending in 'by' are Nordic like the place names in Sweden such as Visby, Hellingsby etc. The Irish surname is an anglicisation of Ó Ciarmhaic, is Kerwick, while the English surname is from the Old Norse "kirkja" + "býr" meaning "church" + "settlement". Notable people with the surname include:
Thomson is a patronymic surname meaning "son of Thom, Thomp, Thompkin, or other diminutive of Thomas", itself derived from the Aramaic תום or Tôm, meaning "twin". The surname is documented in Cheshire records before and after the 1066 Norman Conquest. Variations include Thomason, Thomasson, Thomerson, Thomoson, and others. The French surname Thomson is first documented in Burgundy and is the shortened form for Thom[as]son, Thom[es]son. Variations include Thomassin, Thomason, Thomsson, Thomesson, Thomeson, and others. Thomson is uncommon as a given name.
Jacobs is a patronymic medieval surname. Its origin is from the given name Jacob, derived from the Latin Jacobus, itself derived from the Hebrew language personal name Yaakov, from the Hebrew word akev ("heel"). It is common in English speaking countries and German speaking countries. There are many variant spellings. The first record of the surname is in 1244 in the "Cartularium Monasterii de Rameseia". Jacobs is also an ancient Anglo-Saxon surname that came from the baptismal name Jacob. The surname Jacobs referred to the son of Jacob which belongs to the category of patronymic surnames. People with the surname Jacobs include:
Norman is both a surname and a given name. The surname has multiple origins including English, Irish, Scottish, German, French, Norwegian, Ashkenazi Jewish, and Jewish American. The given name Norman is mostly of English origin, though in some cases it can be an Anglicised form of a Scottish Gaelic personal name.
Ramsay is a Scottish surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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:
Dyson is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Lomas is a territorial surname of English origin, derived from the hamlet of Lumhalghs, near Bury, Greater Manchester, and meaning "pool nook or recess". Notable people with the surname include:
Lumsden is a surname of Scottish origin. Notable people with the surname include:
Montague is an English surname of Old French origin, a form of Montagu. Notable people with the surname include:
References
- ↑ "Leeds Last Name Origin". The Internet Surname Database. Retrieved 2017-12-06.
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