Myers as a surname has several possible origins, e.g. Old French mire ("physician"), Old English maire ("mayor"), and Old Norse myrr ("marsh").
Sheehan or Sheahan is the Anglicisation of the Irish Gaelic surname Ó Síodhacháin, meaning the peaceful one. It is most common in counties Cork, Kerry and Limerick. It is the 77th most common surname in Ireland. This famous surname is of Dalcassian origin. Notable people with the surname include;
Upham is a surname, and may refer to
Meade is a surname, and may refer to:
Van Vechten is a surname. Notable individuals with this surname include:
Magee is an Irish and Scottish surname derived from the Irish surname's Mag Aodha and O’Maolgaoithe. It is uncommon as a given name. Notable people with the surname include:
Stern is a surname which can be of either German/Yiddish or English language origin, though the former case predominates.
Sharpe is a surname of Anglo-Saxon origin. Notable people with the name include:
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.
Durkin is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Mackenzie, MacKenzie and McKenzie are alternative spellings of a Scottish surname relating to Clan Mackenzie. It was originally written MacKenȝie and pronounced [məˈkɛŋjiː] in Scots, with the "z" representing the old Middle Scots letter, "ȝ" yogh. This is an anglicised form of the Scottish Gaelic MacCoinnich, which is a patronymic form of the personal name Coinneach, anglicized as Kenneth. The personal name means "handsome".
Finch is an English surname. Finch was also the surname of the Earls of Winchilsea and Nottingham and Earls of Aylesford.
Jolliffe is a surname, and may refer to:
Coyne is a surname of Irish origin anglicised from the Gaelic Ó Cadhain meaning "descendant of Cadhan".
McInnes is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Lansing is a Dutch patronymic surname from the personal name Lans. The "-ing" or "-ink" suffix originally was patronymic, but later also became indicative of a place. Lansing is now a rare name in the Netherlands, but there are many descendants in the United States of Gerrit Gerritse Lansing (ca.1615–bef.1654), a baker in Hasselt, Overijssel, whose widow and children migrated to New Netherland in 1654. At a later time there the surname became used as a middle name and given name. Notable people with the name include:
Bright is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Baylor is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
William Olcott may refer to:
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