Vaughan and Vaughn are surnames, originally Welsh, though also used as a form of the Irish surname McMahon. Vaughan derives from the Welsh word bychan, meaning "small", and so corresponds to the English name Little and the Breton cognate Bihan. The word mutates to Fychan an identifier for a younger sibling or next of kin. It can also be used as a first name Vaughan.
Black is a surname which can be of either English, Scottish, Irish or French origin. In the cases of non-English origin, the surname is likely to be an Anglicisation. Notable persons with that surname include:
David or Dave Turner may refer to:
Horrocks or Horrox may refer to
Stone is a surname that is an anglicization of the Scandinavian name of Sten dating back to Anglo-Saxon.
Lewis is a surname in the English language. It has several independent origins.
The word brook derives from the Old English broc and appears in the Medieval predecessors of Brooks. The surname arrived in North America from England in the mid-seventeenth century.
Edward James (1907–1984) was a British poet and art patron.
Abrahams is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Pierce is an English, Welsh, and Irish surname. The name is a cognate of French Pierre ('Peter'). Notable people with that surname include:
Sharpe is a surname. Notable people with the name include:
Wilkes is a surname of English origin, a variant of the name William. Notable people with the surname include:
Shepherd is a surname, cognate of the English word "Shepherd". Several common spelling variations exist, including Shepperd, Shephard, Shepard, and Sheppard.
Archie is a given name, almost exclusively masculine and a diminutive of Archibald. It may refer to:
Stefanović is a Serbian surname meaning "son of Stefan" (Stephen). There are also variants of Stevanović and Stepanović. It may refer to:
Butcher is a common family name in England but it may have French origins. It was originally an occupational surname used to identify a person who worked as a butcher. The name derived from the Old English word boucher or the Old French word bouchier. The German equivalent is 'Fleischhauer'.
Slater is an English language surname derived from the occupation of a slater, a tradesman who works with slate.
Coyne is a surname of Irish origin anglicised from the Gaelic Ó Cadhain meaning "descendant of Cadhan".
Crawley is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Curtis or Curtiss is a common English given name and surname of Anglo-Norman origin, deriving from the Old French curteis which was in turn derived from Latin cohors. Nicknames include Curt, Curty and Curtie.
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