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Surnames of English origin (3 C, 718 P) I. Anglicised Irish-language surnames (422 P) L. Surnames of Lowland Scottish origin (1 C, 66 P) S.
Surnames of English origin. 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.
A surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. [1][2] It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several given names and surnames are possible in the full name.
Taylor is a surname of English origin. It is believed to have developed in England after the Norman invasion. Possibly coming from the Norman occupational surname (meaning tailor) in France. [1][2] derived from the Old French tailleur ("cutter"), [3] which derived from the Catalan Tauler meaning cutting board, or the Galician Tello meaning tile.
The name in Ireland has several diverse origins, resulting in widely dispersed clusters of the name in South Western, Western (Galway) and North Eastern Counties. [5] One recognized root was the anglicization of the Irish surname "Ó Laoidigh" which resulted in several variants, such as Lee, Lea, and Maclee. [6]
Andrews (surname) Andrews is a patronymic surname of English, Scottish, and Norse origin. [1] At the time of the 1881 British Census, its relative frequency was highest in Dorset (3.6 times the British average), followed by Wiltshire, Huntingdonshire, Worcestershire, Hampshire, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Devon and Somerset. [2]
Cox (surname) The hills found in Carmarthenshire, Wales, where Cox may have been a topographic name for a man "from the red hills". Possibly derived from cock or coch, and means "from the hills", or from cocc, which means "the little", or derived from coch, meaning "the Red". The surname Cox is of English or Welsh origin, and may have ...
Edwards is a patronymic surname of English origin, meaning "son of Edward".Edwards is the 14th most common surname in Wales and 21st most common in England. [1] Within the United States, it was ranked as the 49th-most common surname as surveyed in 1990, [2] falling to 51st in 2014.
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