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Cornish surnames are surnames used by Cornish people and often derived from the Cornish language such as Jago, Trelawney or Enys. Others have strong roots in the region and many in the UK with names such as Eddy, Stark or Rowe are likely to have Cornish origins. Such surnames for the common people emerged in the Middle Ages, although the ...
Carr is a common surname in northern England, a variant of Kerr, meaning "brushwood wet ground" in Middle English. [1] The Old Norse kjarr means a "brushwood, thicket or copse" and may also come from the ancient Norse Kjarr translation meaning Kaiser from Caesar [2] Kerr is also a Scottish variant, often from the Norse and (particularly on the west coast and Arran) from the Gaelic ciar ...
Surnames of Lowland Scottish origin (1 C, 66 P) Pages in category "English-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 3,346 total.
Robinson is the 15th-most common surname in the United Kingdom. [1] According to the 1990 United States Census , Robinson was the twentieth most frequently encountered surname among those reported, accounting for 0.23% of the population.
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Surnames of British Isles origin. It includes Surnames of British Isles origin that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
In other cases, the surname is sometimes an anglicised form of three Irish surnames. Two such surnames are Mac Giolla na Naomh, a name meaning "son of Gilla na Naomh"; and Mac Conshámha, a name meaning "son of Conshnámha". [6] These surnames were anglicised Ford because their final syllable was once erroneously thought to be the Irish áth ...
Holmes is an English-language surname with several origins.. The name can be a variant of the surname Holme. [1] This surname has several etymological origins: it can be derived from a name for someone who lived next to a holly tree, from the Middle English holm; it can also be derived from the Old English holm and Old Norse holmr. [2]
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