Lehman is a surname. The Lehman family was prominent in finance in the United States. Notable people with the surname include:
Sherman is a surname that originated in the Anglo-Saxon language. It means a "shearer of woolen garments", being derived from the words scearra, or "shears", and mann, or "man". The name is cognate with Sharman, Shearman and Shurman. Sherman has also been regularly used as a given name in the United States. This was probably originally in honor of Roger Sherman, though after the Civil War William Tecumseh Sherman was also an influence.
Méndez is a common Spanish surname of Germanic origin, originally a patronymic, meaning Son of Mendo, Menendo, or Mem. A longer form sharing the same root is Menéndez, while the Portuguese form is Mendes. Méndez may refer to:
Gale is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Jennings is a surname of early medieval English origin. Notable people with the surname include:
Dalton is a surname of Norman origin found in Ireland and Britain and places where people from those backgrounds emigrated to. The Hiberno-Norman D'Alton family controlled an area of the Irish midlands following the Norman invasion and assimilation into Ireland. An unrelated, prominent Norman-Irish gentry family of the toponymic surname de Antōn arose in Co. Kilkenny in the late thirteenth century; their surname was later corrupted to Daton or Dalton.
Weil, Weill, and Weyl are related German and German-Jewish surnames.
Kerr is an English and Scottish surname, a topographic name for someone who lived by a marsh or swampy woodland. Middle English kerr means ‘brushwood wet ground.’ See Clan Kerr for the Scottish origins.
Gould is a surname, a variant of "Gold"
Osborn is a patronymic surname derived from the Old English first name Osbeorn and possibly the Old Norse name Ásbjörn, such as the Old Norman first name Osbern it sometimes translates and may refer to:
Burrows is an English surname, and may refer to:
Wilkins is a surname.
Thorn is a surname that may refer to:
Head is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Crosby is an English, Scottish, and Irish surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Walton is a toponymic surname or placename of Anglo-Saxon origins. It derives from a place with the suffix tun and one of the prefixes wald, walesc ('foreigner') or walh. First recorded as a surname in Oxfordshire in the person of Odo de Wolton on the Hundred Rolls in 1273. People with the name include:
Abraham is a surname. It can be of Jewish, English, French, German, Dutch, Irish, Welsh, Cornish, Breton, Lebanese, Syrian and other origins. It is derived from the Hebrew personal name Avraham, borne by the biblical patriarch Abraham, revered by Jews as a founding father of the Jewish people, and by Muslims as founder of all Semitic peoples. The name is explained in Genesis 17:5 as being derived from the Hebrew av hamon goyim "father of a multitude of nations". It was commonly used as a given name among Christians in the Middle Ages, and has always been a popular Jewish given name. The English name Abram is often a short form of Abraham, but it can also be a shortened version of Adburgham, which comes from a place name. As an Irish name, it was adopted as an approximation of the Gaelic name Mac an Bhreitheamhan "son of the judge". The German name Brahm is often a short form of Abraham, but it can also be a topographic name signifying someone who lived near a bramble thicket. The name Braham has been used as an Anglicization of both Abraham and its patronymic Abrahams by Ashkenazi Jews in the British Isles. Abraham has also been used as an Anglicization of the equivalent Arabic surname Ibrāhīm. It is also found as a given name among Christians in India, and has come to be used as a family name among families from Kerala.
Glass or Glaß is a surname with several sources. It can be English, German, Russian/Slavic, Irish or Scottish. Many with the last name Glass, are of eastern European descent, where Glass is a shortened version of their original last name. It is also a Jewish surname, adopted by some Eastern European Ashkenazi in the nineteenth century. After being forced by the authorities to take on a surname, Jews in this area typically chose names referring to places, animals, occupations or signifying personal traits. The name Glass referred to Glass-making, Glazing and the Glass trade.
Hough is an English surname that is also used in Ireland as a variant of Haugh. People with this surname may pronounce it as "how" or "huff". Notable people with the surname include:
Sands is an English and Scottish surname. Notable people with the surname include: