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Ainsley
“solitary” or “hermitage” + “woodland clearing”, via Annesley or Ansley · Old English · Rare
Ashcroft
“ash tree” + “enclosed field” · Old English · Rare
Ashdown
perhaps “ash tree” + “hill”, from a lost place in Berkshire · Old English · Rare
Astley
“east meadow” or “east clearing” · Old English · Rare
Astor
likely “hawk”, from Occitan · Likely Occitan · Rare
Audley
the personal name Ealdgȳþ + “woodland clearing” · Old English · Rare
Aylward
“noble guard” or “elf guard” · Old English · Rare
Beaufort
“beautiful fort” · French (Norman) · Rare
Berkeley
“birch” + “meadow” · Old English · Rare
Bonaparte
“good” + “part, share” · Italian (Corsican) · Rare
Briar
“briar” · Middle English · Rare
Brontë
from Ó Proinntigh: “descendant of Proinnteach (‘Generous’)” · Irish · Rare
Carnegie
possibly “fort at the gap” · Possibly Gaelic · Rare
Cavendish
“Cāfna’s enclosure” · Old English · Rare
Courtenay
from curtus, “short” · Norman, from Latin · Rare
Coventry
believed to be “Cofa’s tree” · Old English · Rare
Crofton
“enclosure” + “farmstead” · Old English · Rare
Delamere
“of the sea” · French · Rare
Delmar
“the pond” · Old French (Norman) · Rare
Deveraux
“from Évreux”, a city in Normandy · Anglo-Norman · Rare
Devereux
“from Évreux”, a city in Normandy · Anglo-Norman · Rare
Fairfax
“beautiful tresses”: a nickname for long fair hair · English · Rare
Fitzroy
“son of the king” · Anglo-Norman · Rare
Fitzwilliam
“son of William” · Anglo-Norman · Rare
Garnier
“to protect” + “army” · French, from Germanic · Rare
Huxley
the personal name Hucc + “woodland clearing” · Old English · Rare
Northcott
“north cottage” · Old English · Rare
Pembroke
“land’s end” · Brythonic · Rare
Quincy
from Latin Quintus, “fifth-born” · Old French (Norman) · Rare
Ravenscroft
the name Hræfn (“raven”) + “enclosed field” · Old English · Rare
Reynard
“counsel” + “hard, strong” · Old French, from Germanic · Rare
Rockefeller
from the German place name Rockenfeld · German · Rare
Saint
from the word “saint” · English · Rare
Selwyn
from Silvanus, or “hall” + “friend” · Latin or Old English · Rare
Somerset
“the people living at Somerton” · Old English · Rare
Stanhope
“stone” + “valley” · Old English · Rare
Stratford
“road” + “ford” · Old English · Rare
Tremaine
“farmstead” + “stone” · Cornish · Rare
Vanderbilt
“from De Bilt”, a town in the Netherlands · Dutch · Rare
Waldorf
from the German town Walldorf · German · Rare
Wellesley
“the woodland by the springs” · English · Rare
Winthrop
“friend’s village” · English · Rare
Yardley
“stick, rod” + “woodland clearing” · Old English · Rare
Ashby
“ash tree” + “farm, town” · Old English & Old Norse · Uncommon
Ashford
“ford by the ash trees” · Old English · Uncommon
Ashworth
“ash tree” + “enclosure” · Old English · Uncommon
Atherton
the personal name Æþelhere + “settlement” · Old English · Uncommon
Aubrey
from Alberich: “elf” + “ruler” · Norman, from Germanic · Uncommon
Bancroft
“bean” + “enclosed field” · Old English · Uncommon
Barrington
the personal name Beorn + “belonging to” + “settlement” · Old English · Uncommon
Bartholomew
“son of Talmai” · Aramaic, via Greek & Latin · Uncommon
Beauchamp
“beautiful field” · Old French (Norman) · Uncommon
Beaumont
“beautiful mountain” · Anglo-Norman French · Uncommon
Bellamy
“fair friend” · Old French (Norman) · Uncommon
Belmont
“beautiful mountain” · French or Italian · Uncommon
Benedict
“blessed” · Latin · Uncommon
Blackstone
“black stone” · Old English · Uncommon
Blackwood
“black wood” · English & Scottish · Uncommon
Blythe
“merry” · Old English · Uncommon
Bosworth
“cattle enclosure” · Old English · Uncommon
Bourne
“stream” · Old English · Uncommon
Buckingham
the personal name Bucca + “belonging to” + “home” · Old English · Uncommon
Byron
“at the byre or cattleshed” · Old English · Uncommon
Carmichael
“fort” + the personal name Michael · Cumbric · Uncommon
Carrington
a personal name + “belonging to” + “settlement” · Old English · Uncommon
Chadwick
the name Chad + Old Norse vík · Old English & Old Norse · Uncommon
Chastain
from Old French “chestnut” · French · Uncommon
Chatham
“wood” + “home” · Old Welsh & Old English · Uncommon
Churchill
“church” + “hill” · English · Uncommon
Colton
“coal” + “settlement” · Old English · Uncommon
Cromwell
“crooked spring” · Old English · Uncommon
Dane
someone who came from Denmark · Old Norse & Old English · Uncommon
Darby
“deer” + “settlement” · Old Norse · Uncommon
Darcy
from Bois-d’Arcy in northern France · Old French (Norman) · Uncommon
Darling
from the nickname “darling” · English & Scottish · Uncommon
Delano
“from Lannoy”, from “the alderwood” · French · Uncommon
Desmond
“a man from South Munster” · Irish · Uncommon
Devereaux
“from Évreux”, a city in Normandy · Anglo-Norman · Uncommon
Easton
“east settlement” · Old English · Uncommon
Eastwood
“east wood” · English · Uncommon
Ellington
the name Ella, or “eel” + “belonging to” + “settlement” · Old English · Uncommon
Fairbanks
“fair bank” · English · Uncommon
Fallon
“descendant of Fallamhan”, a name related to “ruler” · Irish · Uncommon
Fenwick
“fen, marsh” + “dwelling” · Old English · Uncommon
Forsythe
“man of peace” · Scottish Gaelic · Uncommon
Gideon
“feller, hewer” or “mighty warrior” · Hebrew · Uncommon
Granger
a granger, a farm bailiff · English (occupational) · Uncommon
Harlow
“rock” or “army” + “hill” · Old English · Uncommon
Hartwell
“a spring visited by deer” · Old English · Uncommon
Hathaway
possibly someone who lived by a path across a heath · Old English · Uncommon
Hawk
possibly “hawk”, for a hawker · Middle English · Uncommon
Hawthorne
someone who lived near a hawthorn hedge · Middle English · Uncommon
Irving
probably “fresh river” · Celtic · Uncommon
Kingsley
“the king’s wood or clearing” · Old English · Uncommon
Kingston
“the king’s town or manor” · Old English · Uncommon
Lacroix
“the cross” · French · Uncommon
Lafayette
“the little beech tree” · Occitan · Uncommon
Lamar
“the pool” · Old French (Norman) · Uncommon
Lattimore
“translator, interpreter” · Latin · Uncommon
Lavigne
“the vine, the vineyard” · French · Uncommon
Lefevre
“smith” · French · Uncommon
Leighton
“leek” + “settlement”: a herb garden · Old English · Uncommon
Lennox
“inhabitant of Lennox” · Scottish Gaelic · Uncommon
Lockwood
“enclosure” + “wood” · Old English · Uncommon
Lovelace
“loveless” · Middle English · Uncommon
Lowell
“little wolf” · Anglo-Norman · Uncommon
Ludlow
the river Hlūde + “hill, mound” · Old English · Uncommon
Mallory
“unhappy, unlucky” · Old French (Norman) · Uncommon
Mortimer
“dead pond” · Old French (Norman) · Uncommon
Oakley
“a clearing in an oak forest” · Old English · Uncommon
Ogden
“oak valley” · Old English · Uncommon
Pemberton
“head, summit” + “barley” + “village” · Old Welsh & Old English · Uncommon
Pendleton
“the settlement beside Pendle” · Old English · Uncommon
Penrose
“head” + “moor, heathland” · Cornish · Uncommon
Percival
from Perceval, a knight of Arthurian romance · Old French · Uncommon
Raleigh
“roe deer” + “woodland clearing” · Old English · Uncommon
Remington
“settlement by the boundary stream” · Old English · Uncommon
Rochester
“Hrofi’s fortified camp” · Old English · Uncommon
Rothschild
“red shield” · German · Uncommon
Rousseau
a nickname for someone with red hair · French · Uncommon
Royce
from the given name Rose · Middle English · Uncommon
Salisbury
“stronghold”, from an older Celtic name · Old English · Uncommon
Seaton
“sea, lake” + “settlement” · Old English · Uncommon
Shelby
likely “dweller of the willow place” · Middle English · Uncommon
Shelley
“clearing on a bank” · Old English · Uncommon
Stockton
“log, stump” or “dwelling” + “settlement” · Old English · Uncommon
Talbot
“bandit” · Old French (Norman) · Uncommon
Thatcher
a thatcher · English (occupational) · Uncommon
Vandenberg
“of the hill” · Dutch · Uncommon
Vernon
“place of alder trees” · Gaulish, via Norman · Uncommon
Walcott
“foreigner, Briton” + “cottage” · Old English · Uncommon
Warwick
“dwelling by the weir” · Old English · Uncommon
Westcott
“west cottage” · Old English · Uncommon
Whitlock
partly “white lock (of hair)” · Middle English · Uncommon
Whitmore
“white moor” · Old English · Uncommon
Winchester
“Venta of the Belgae” + “camp” · Latin & Old English · Uncommon
Windham
“Wigmund’s home” · English · Uncommon
Windsor
“riverbank with a windlass” · Old English · Uncommon
Winslow
“Wine’s mound” · Old English · Uncommon
Worthington
the personal name Weorþ + “belonging to” + “settlement” · Old English · Uncommon
Wren
a nickname from the bird, “wren” · Middle English · Uncommon
Abbott
someone employed by an abbot · English (occupational) · Common
Aldridge
“alder” + “farmstead” · Old English · Common
Avery
from Ælfræd: “elf” + “counsel” · Anglo-Norman, from Old English · Common
Bassett
a nickname for a short person · French · Common
Bentley
“bent-grass” + “meadow” · Old English · Common
Bishop
from the word “bishop” · English (occupational) · Common
Blackburn
“dark” + “stream” · Old English · Common
Bradford
“broad ford” · Old English · Common
Burgess
“town-dweller” · Anglo-Norman · Common
Cameron
“crooked nose” · Scottish Gaelic · Common
Campbell
“crooked mouth” · Scottish Gaelic · Common
Carlisle
“fort” + a Celtic personal name · Cumbric · Common
Carver
“carver, wood-cutter, sculptor” · Middle English (occupational) · Common
Castle
from the word “castle”: someone who lived or worked in one · English · Common
Chapman
“merchant, trader” · Middle English (occupational) · Common
Clement
“merciful” · Late Latin · Common
Clifford
“the ford by the cliff” · Old English · Common
Colbert
“cool, calm” + “bright” · Germanic · Common
Collier
“charcoal burner” · English (occupational) · Common
Corbin
a nickname from “crow” · Anglo-Norman · Common
Courtney
from curtus, “short” · Old French (Norman) · Common
Crane
from the bird’s name, “crane” · English · Common
Crawford
“crow” + “ford” · Old English · Common
Cunningham
“king” or “rabbit” + “home, estate” · Scottish Gaelic & Old English · Common
Curtis
“polite, courteous” · Old French · Common
Dalton
“valley” + “settlement” · Old English · Common
Davenport
named after the River Dane + “port” · Middle English · Common
Delaney
“from the alder grove” · Old French (Norman) · Common
Dewitt
from Dutch “de Witt” · Dutch · Common
Dorsey
“of Orsay”, a town in France · Norman · Common
Drake
“dragon” · Old English & Old Norse · Common
Draper
a draper, a cloth merchant · English (occupational) · Common
Dunbar
“fort” + “hill-crest, summit” · Cumbric · Common
Elmore
from the personal name Æþelmær · Old English · Common
Emerson
“son of Emery” · English · Common
Everett
from Everaert · Dutch · Common
Fitzgerald
“son of Gerald” · Hiberno-Norman · Common
Fitzpatrick
“son of the devotee of Saint Patrick” · Irish · Common
Fleming
originally a name for a Fleming · Old Norse & Middle Dutch · Common
Fletcher
“arrow-maker” · English (occupational) · Common
Fox
from the animal, the fox · English · Common
Frost
from the word “frost” · English · Common
Gallagher
“descendants of Gallchobair” · Irish · Common
Galloway
“among the foreign Gaels” · Scottish Gaelic · Common
Garrison
“son of Garrett” · English · Common
Gilbert
“pledge” + “bright, famous” · Old French, from Germanic · Common
Glass
from the word “glass” · English · Common
Goodwin
“good friend” · Old English · Common
Grant
“large” · Anglo-Norman · Common
Gray
a nickname for someone with grey hair or beard · English & Norman · Common
Greenwood
probably “green wood” · English · Common
Hadley
“heath” + “woodland clearing” · Old English · Common
Hamilton
“flat-topped hill” · Old English · Common
Hartley
“stag” + “woodland clearing” · Old English · Common
Hastings
“Hæsta’s people” · Old English · Common
Hawkins
from Hawkin, a pet form of Hal (Henry) · Middle English · Common
Hendrix
“son of Hendrick” · English (patronymic) · Common
Holloway
“hollow way” · Old English · Common
Holmes
“islet” · Middle English · Common
Howard
“high guard” · Old Norse · Common
Ingram
the god Ingwaz + “raven” · Germanic · Common
Knight
a mounted soldier, from Old English “youth; servant” · English · Common
Lambert
“land” + “bright” · Old French, from Germanic · Common
Lancaster
the River Lune + “town”, after its Roman fort · Old English · Common
Langley
“long woodland clearing” · Old English · Common
Lovell
“little wolf” · Anglo-Norman · Common
Madison
usually “son of Matthew” · English · Common
Maxwell
“Mack’s well or spring” · Scottish · Common
Middleton
“middle settlement” · Old English · Common
Monroe
“foot of a hill” · Scottish Gaelic · Common
Montgomery
“Gomeric’s hill” · Norman French · Common
Morgan
possibly “great chief” or “sea chief” · Old Welsh · Common
Noble
from the word “noble” · English · Common
Norwood
“north wood” · English · Common
Osborne
“god” + “bear” · Old Norse · Common
Paige
“page”, a young servant · Old French · Common
Preston
“priests’ settlement” · Old English · Common
Raines
from Reims, the French town · Anglo-Norman · Common
Rhodes
someone who lived near woodland clearings · Middle English · Common
Rose
from the word “rose” · English · Common
Russell
a nickname for someone with red hair · Anglo-Norman · Common
Rutherford
“cattle” + “ford” · Old English · Common
Sawyer
“one who saws” · English (occupational) · Common
Seymour
from Saint-Maur, a place in Normandy · Old French (Norman) · Common
Sinclair
from Saint Clare, to whom the clan’s churches were dedicated · Scottish · Common
Spencer
a steward or butler · Middle English (occupational) · Common
Stafford
“landing place” + “ford” · Old English · Common
Steele
“steel”: a metalworker, or someone as hard as steel · Middle English · Common
Stone
someone who lived near, or worked with, stone · Old English · Common
Sutherland
“south land” · Old Norse · Common
Swan
a nickname from the swan · English · Common
Thornton
“thorn” + “settlement” · Old English · Common
Townsend
“town’s end”: someone at the edge of a village · Middle English · Common
Underwood
someone who lived near a wood · Middle English · Common
Valentine
from vālens, “strong, healthy” · Latin · Common
Vance
“marsh, bog” · Old English · Common
Vaughan
“little” · Welsh · Common
Vaughn
“small” · Welsh · Common
Vincent
“conquering” · Latin · Common
Wallace
“foreign”: a byname for a Welshman or Breton · Anglo-Norman · Common
Wells
someone living near a well or a spring · Old English · Common
Westbrook
“west brook” · Old English · Common
Weston
“west settlement” · Old English · Common
Whitaker
“white acre” · Old English · Common
Whitfield
“white field” · Old English · Common
Whitney
“white island” · Old English · Common
Woodward
from the occupation “woodward” · English (occupational) · Common
Wyatt
“war” + “hard, brave” · Old English · Common
York
from Eborācum, ultimately “yew” · Old English, from Brythonic · Common
Clarendon
perhaps “the hill associated with Clare” · Old English
Cornwallis
someone with Cornish ancestry · Old English
Rosewood
from the word “rosewood” · English
Trevelyan
“farmstead” + the personal name Elyan · Cornish
Alcott
Rare
Belcourt
French · Rare
Bellerose
French · Rare
Bramwell
Rare
Brightwell
Rare
Channing
Rare
Clairmont
English · Rare
Claybourne
Rare
Coldwell
Rare
Delacour
Rare
Delacroix
Rare
Delafield
Rare
Delaine
French · Rare
Delancey
Rare
Dorian
Rare
Duchamp
Rare
Duquesne
French · Rare
Gaskell
Rare
Halloway
Rare
Harcourt
Rare
Hargreaves
Rare
Hayworth
Rare
Lestrange
Rare
Meriwether
Rare
Richelieu
Rare
Vere
Rare
Villiers
French · Rare
Waverly
Rare
Wraith
Rare
Abernathy
Uncommon
Atwood
Uncommon
Beauregard
French · Uncommon
Beckett
Uncommon
Bettencourt
French · Uncommon
Bouchard
French · Uncommon
Calloway
English · Uncommon
Castellano
Uncommon
Chancellor
Uncommon
Charbonneau
Uncommon
Chevalier
Uncommon
Constantine
Uncommon
Cordell
Uncommon
Cullen
Irish · Uncommon
Dillinger
Uncommon
Drummond
Uncommon
Dumont
Uncommon
Durand
Uncommon
Edgerton
English · Uncommon
Ellsworth
English · Uncommon
Endicott
Uncommon
Fairchild
Uncommon
Falconer
Uncommon
Farrington
Uncommon
Fielding
Uncommon
Fontaine
French · Uncommon
Gautier
Uncommon
Giroux
French · Uncommon
Grey
Uncommon
Guerin
French · Uncommon
Hemingway
Uncommon
Herrington
Uncommon
Huntington
Uncommon
Isley
Uncommon
Jardine
Uncommon
Lark
Uncommon
Larue
French · Uncommon
Laurent
French · Uncommon
Loving
Uncommon
Lyle
Uncommon
Mabry
Uncommon
Marchand
French · Uncommon
Marlowe
Uncommon
Martel
Uncommon
Montague
Uncommon
Moreau
Uncommon
Morningstar
Uncommon
Nightingale
Uncommon
Percy
Old French · Uncommon
Prescott
Uncommon
Radcliffe
Uncommon
Ramsay
Old English · Uncommon
Raven
Uncommon
Rockwell
Uncommon
Storm
Uncommon
Thorne
Uncommon
Vanderpool
Uncommon
Wakefield
Uncommon
Wilde
Uncommon
Ballard
Common
Blackwell
Common
Blanchard
French · Common
Brooks
Common
Broussard
French · Common
Chamberlain
Common
Chambers
Common
Childress
Common
Crowley
Common
Dubois
French · Common
Finch
Common
Forbes
Common
Ford
Common
Graves
Common
Griffin
Common
Grimes
Common
Grimm
German · Common
Harrington
Common
Hensley
Common
Leblanc
French · Common
Lockhart
Common
Lucas
Latin, from Greek · Common
Manning
Common
Marsh
Common
Mason
Common
Mercer
English · Common
Merritt
Common
Morrow
Scottish & Irish · Common
Moss
Common
Nash
Common
Oliver
Old French · Common
Pierce
Common
Pike
Middle English · Common
Prince
Common
Redmond
Common
Rivers
Common
Sheridan
Irish · Common
Stanton
Common
Sterling
Scottish · Common
Sullivan
Irish · Common
Webb
Common
Winters
English · Common
Wolfe
Common
Can’t decide? Say each one out loud with the first name. Rhythm matters as much as meaning.