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Quackenbush is a surname of Dutch origin that is an Americanized form of the Dutch Quackenbosch. It is a toponymic surname from the Dutch kwak 'night heron' + bosch 'woodland wilderness'. The surname Quackenbosch is no longer found in the Netherlands. The family descends from 17th-century immigrant to New Netherland Pieter Pieterzoon Quackenbosch.
Notable people with the surname include:
Stephenson is a medieval patronymic surname meaning "son of Stephen". The earliest public record is found in the county of Huntingdonshire in 1279. There are variant spellings including Stevenson. People with the surname include:
McClellan is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Kehoe, originally spelled MacKehoe, is an Irish surname that stems from several distinct septs in Ireland.
Schaefer is an alternative spelling and cognate for the German word schäfer, meaning 'shepherd', which itself descends from the Old High German scāphare. Variants "Shaefer", "Schäfer", the additional alternative spelling "Schäffer", and the anglicised forms "Schaeffer", "Schaffer", "Shaffer", "Shafer", and "Schafer" are all common surnames.
McNaughton or MacNaughton is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Ferraro is an occupational surname of Italian origin meaning blacksmith in Italian. Notable people with this surname include:
Maloney is a surname of Irish origin. The name 'Maloney' is derived from the Irish Ó Maoldhomhnaigh. The surname is a sept of an Irish clan Dál gCais who were a powerful group in Ireland during the 10th century.
Gilmour is a surname of Scottish or Irish origin, derived from an anglicisation of the Gaelic name Mac Gille Mhoire, the same origin as the name McLemore. Notable people with this surname include:
Gillies is both a Scottish surname and a given name shared by several notable people:
Heffernan is an Irish surname derived from the Gaelic Ó hIfearnáin, which comes from the byname Ifearnán literally meaning 'little demon' or more metaphorically 'daredevil'. Heffernan gives rise to alternatives such as Heffernon and Hefferan. The name sometimes contains the O' prefix. According to historian C. Thomas Cairney, the O'Heffermans were the chiefly family of the Uaithni who were a tribe of the Erainn who were the second wave of Celts to settle in Ireland between about 500 and 100 BC.
Daniels is a patronymic surname meaning "son of Daniel". It may refer to:
Cozens is an English surname. Following the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, the name Cozens was first found in Britina. It was a name for a person who was related to someone of note in the area. Further research showed the name was derived from the Old French, cusin, and the Old English, cousin, which means relative.
Furey is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
De Bruyn is a Dutch and Afrikaans surname. "Bruyn" or "bruijn" is an archaic spelling of "bruin", meaning "brown". People with the name include:
Connelly is an anglicised form of the Gaelic-Irish surname Ó Conghalaigh. Notable people with the surname Connelly include:
Leddy is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Barron is a surname of Scottish origin. Notable people with the surname include:
Maynard is a Norman/Germanic/English surname meaning "strength, hardy".
Stanfield is an English surname deriving from the Old English 'stan' and 'feld' (field). This toponymic surname originates from several possible locations in England: the village of Stanfield, Norfolk; the ancient township of Stansfield, West Yorkshire; and the village of Stansfield, Suffolk. Other variants include Stansfield, Stansfeld, and Standfield.
Carney is an Irish surname. Notable people with the surname include:
