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Wells is an English habitational surname but is possibly also from an old English word for Wales. It normally derives from occupation, location, and topography. The occupational name (i.e. "Wellman") derives from the person responsible for a village's spring. The locational name (i.e. "Well") derives from the pre-7th century "wælla" ("spring ...
Gender-Neutral Baby Names That Mean Spring 48. Aviv. Although primarily a male name, this Hebrew moniker meaning “barely ripening” and “spring season” has gender-neutral potential, too. 49 ...
The main bon-gwan for the surname Noe meaning "thunder" is Gyodong-myeon , a township and island in Ganghwa County, Incheon. However, in the 1930 colonial census, most of the households with the surname Noe resided in Hwanghae Province (34 households), with the remaining six households being in South Pyongan (5) and Chungcheongnamdo (1).
As a Dutch surname, Looi originated both as shortened version of van de Looi with the tussenvoegsels dropped, and as a patronymic surname derived from the given name Looi. That given name is a regional hypocorism of various other given names: it may be short for Ludolf , or for Lodewijk in Groningen and the southern Netherlands , or for Eligius ...
The Chinese surname meaning "thunder" is spelled in Vietnamese as Lôi (IPA:, that being the Sino-Vietnamese pronunciation of the original Chinese character). [3] Loi is a surname found in Punjab, it is a common Sikh Jatt surname used by farmers/landowners. The surname Loi only belongs to the Jatt caste within the Sikh and Punjabi community.
The surname Spring is shared by: Amos Spring (1880–1958), English cricketer; Antoine Frédéric Spring (1814–1872), Belgian physician and botanist; Arthur Spring (born 1976), Irish Labour Party politician; Bryan Spring (born 1945), British jazz drummer; Charles A. Spring (1800–1892), American merchant and religious leader
For ease of use, the [i] in front of the last name, and the ending _ve, were dropped. If the last name ends in [a], then removing the [j] would give the name of the patriarch or the place, as in, Grudaj - j = Gruda (place in MM). Otherwise, removing the whole ending [aj] yields the name of founder or place of origin, as in Lekaj - aj = Lek(ë).
Brunner is a German surname. It originated from the Middle High German word Brunne meaning spring or water well. It can also refer to people from places named Brunn. Notable people with the surname include: Alois Brunner (1912–2001), Austrian Nazi SS concentration camp war criminal; Alex Brunner (born 1973) Italian footballer