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Norman as a given name is of mostly English origin. It is a Germanic name and is composed of the elements nord ("north") + man ("man"). The name can be found in England before the Norman Invasion of 1066, but gained popularity by its use by Norman settlers in England after the invasion.
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It is a well-stirred mix of Old English, Middle English and Norman French, with some Norse and Celt, in which it is English that dominates. To see it in context, Norman French was the language of power and rank until Henry IV made English the tongue of kings at the end of the fourteenth century when most surnames already existed." [2]
Tobin (Irish: Tóibín, pronounced [t̪ˠoːˈbʲiːnʲ]; from the Norman surname Saint Aubin, originated with Saint Albinus) is an Irish surname of Norman origin. [1]The Anglo-French Saint Aubin family arrived in Ireland in the wake of the Norman invasion in the 12th century [2] and settled in Counties Tipperary and Kilkenny, and subsequently spread to the neighbouring counties of Cork and ...
Fitzsimons (also spelled FitzSimons, Fitzsimmons or FitzSimmons) is a surname of Norman origin common in both Ireland and England. The name is a variant of "Sigmundsson", meaning son of Sigmund. [1] The Gaelicisation of this surname is Mac Síomóin or Mac an Ridire. [2] [3]
Fawkes is a surname of Norman-French origin, first appearing in the British Isles after the Norman Conquest of England in 1066. [1] The surname may be a corruption of the Norman surname Vaux, which means valley. [2] Notably, Guy Fawkes was sometimes recorded as Guy Vaux. [3] An alternative origin for the surname is that it originates from the ...
Russell, also Rosel, Rousel, Roussel, Russel or Rossell.The origin of the name has historically been subject to disagreement, with two distinct origins proposed. Early genealogists traced the Russel/Russell family of Kingston Russel from Anglo-Norman landholders bearing the toponymic surname 'de Rosel' or 'du Rozel', deriving from Rosel, Calvados, Normandy (not, as has also been claimed, Le ...
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