Seeking English surnames

1. Some surnames come from occupations:

Baker Baker/Hunter Hunter

Carter Carter (coachman)/Smith Smith (blacksmith)

Cook Cook (cook)/Miller Miller (miller)

Turner Turner (lathe worker). Some surnames come from certain place names or building names. Such as:

London London (the capital of England)/Hall Hall (auditorium)

Kent Kent (one of southeast England)/Millmill (mill)

Brookbrook (brook)/Churchill (hill)

Hill Hill (mountain)/ Lake Lake (Lake)

Fieldfield (Field, Yuan Ye) /

Green Green (Grass, Lawn)

Woodwood (Forest)/Wellwell (Well, Spring)

4. Some surnames reflect personal characteristics (skin color, height, appearance or morality). Such as:

Brown Brown (brown)/White White (white)

Longman Longman (tall)/Short Short Short (short)

Sharp Sharp (smart)/Hard Hardy (hard-working)

Yong Yang (young)/Sterling Sterling (authoritative). Some surnames come from the names of human parts, such as:

Backbuck (back)/Handhand (hand)

Finger Finger/Brain Brain (brain)

6. Some surnames come from animal and plant names. Such as:

Bird Bird/Bull Bull

Fox Fox/Hawk Hawk

Bush Bush (Bush)/Stockstock (Violet)

Cotton Cotton/Reed

7. Some. Such as:

George George Henry Henry/David Clinton Clinton

Macadam Macadam St.Leger St. Rigg's common English names Abbot(t) Abbot

Abe Abbe (Abraham's nickname)

Abraham

Acheson Acheson

Ackerman(n) < Addison; Addison

Adela Adela

Adelaide

Adolph Adolf

Agnes agnes

Albert

Alcott alcott

Aldington Aldington

Aldridge aldridge

Aled(k) Alender p>Alerander. Alfred

Alice Alice; Alice

Alick alik (Alexander's nickname)

Alsop(p) Alsop

alyali

Amelia Amelia

Anderson Anderson

Andrew

Ann

Anna Anna

Anne Anne

Anthony

Antoinette antoinette

Antonia antonia

Arabella arabella

. Archibald archibald

Armstrong

Arnold Arnold

Arthur

Attlee Atlee

Augustine

Augustus augustus

Austin Austin

Babbitt Babbitt; Bai Bide; Bobby

Bach

Bacon bacon

Baldwin Baldwin

Barnard

Barney Barney

Barrett Barrett; Barrett

Barry Barry

Bartholomew

Bartholomew bartholomew

Bartlett bartlett

Barton Barton

Bauer Bauer; Bayer

Beard beard

Beaufort beaufort; Beaufort

Becher Beecher

Beck Beck (Rebecca's nickname)

Becky Becky

Beerbohm beerbohm

Bell Bell

Bellamy Bellamy

Belle Bell (Arabella's nickname)

Belloc Bayloc

Ben Ben (Benjamin's nickname).

Benedict Benedict

Benjamin

Bennett Bennett (nickname for Benedict)

Benson

Bentham Bentham; Bentham

Berkeley Bekele; Berkeley

Bernard p>Bernal

Bernard Bernard; Bernal de

Bert Bert (nickname of Herbert)

Bertha Bertha

Bertie Bertie

Bertram bertram

Bess Bess (nickname of Elizabeth)

Bessemer Bessemer; Bessemer

Bessie Bessie (nickname of Elizabeth)

Bethune Bethune; Beaton

Betsy Betsy Betsy (Elizabeth's nickname)

Betty (Elizabeth's nickname)

Bill (William's nickname)

Billy (William's nickname)

Birrell Biehler

Black Black

Blake

Bloomer bloomer

Bloomfield Braun. Blomefield

Bloor Blau; Bloor

Blume Bloom

Bob Bob (a nickname for Robert)

Bobby Bobby (a nickname for Robert)

Boswell boswell

Bowen Bowen

Bowman Bowman

Boyle Boyle; Boyle

Bradley Bradley

Bray Bray

Brewster Brewster

Bridges bridges

Bright Bright

Broad Brod

Bronte Bronte; Brandy

Brooke

Brown Brown

Browne Brown

Browning Browning; Browning

Bruce Bruce

Bruno Bruno

Bryan Bryan

Bryce Braez

Buck Barker

Buckle Barker

Bulwer Bulwell; Bulwer

Bunyan Bunyan

Burke

Burne-Jones Bourne-Jones (double surname)

Burns Burns; Burns;

Butler butler; Butler

Byron Byron

Camilla karami

Camp Camp

Carey Carey; Carlyle

Carl

Carllyle Carlisle

Carmen

Carnegie

Caroline

Carpenter Carpenter

Carrie Carrie Carrie; Carrie

Carroll

Carter

Catherine

Cecilia Cecylia

Chamberlain

Chaplin Chaplin; (British film star) Zhuo Belin

Chapman Chapman

Charles Charles; Charlie

Charley Charlie (a nickname for Charles)

Charlotte Charlotte; Charlotte

Charles Charles; Charlie

Chaucer

Chesterton chesterton

Child julia child

Child julia child

Christian p>Christ

Christian Christies

Christiana cristiana

Christie (a nickname for Christian).

Christopher Christopher

Christy Christie (nickname of Christian)

Church Church

Churchill

Cissie Xixi (nickname of Cecillia).

Clapham clapham

Clara Clara

Clare Claire (nickname for ClaraClarissa)

Clarissa Clarissa

Clark(e) Clark

Clemens Clemens; Clemens

Clement

Cocker Coker

Coffey Coffey

Colclough Colclough

Coleridge Coleridge; Coleridge

Collins

Commons Kang Mangsi

Conan Conan

Congreve congreve

Connie Connie (nickname of Constance)

Connor Connor

Conrad Conrad

Constance constance

Cook(e). Cook

Cooper Cooper

Copperfield Copperfield

Cotton Cotton

Coverdale Coverdale

Cowper Cooper;

Craig p>Craigie

Crane Crane

Crichton Creighton

Croft Croft

Crofts crofts

Cromwell Cromwell

Cronin Cronin; Cronin

Cumberland Cumberland

Curme Kom

Daisy Daisy

Dalton Dalton

Dan Dan (nickname of Danielle)

Daniel

Daniel; Danielle

Darwin

David

Davy David (David's nickname)

Defoe Defoe

Delia Delia

Den(n)is Dennis

DeQuincey de Quincy

Dewar dewar; Dewar

Dewey Dewey

Dick Dick (Richard's nickname)

Dickens Dickens; Dickens

Dickey Dickey

Dillon Tommy Tam

Dobbin Dobbin (Robert's nickname)

Dodd Dodd

Doherty Taoherty; Dorty

Dolly Dolly (nickname of Dorothy)

Donne Donne

Dora Dora (nickname of Dorothy)

Doris Doris; Doris

Dorothea dorothea

Dorothy

Douglas(s) Douglas

Doyle Doyle; Doyle

Dierser Dreiser

Dryden Clayton; Dryden

DuBois du bois

Dulles Dulles

Dunbar Dunbar

Duncan Duncan

Dunlop Dunlop

Dupont DuPont

Dutt Dart; Dodd

Eddie Eddie (Edward's nickname)

Eden Eden

Edgeworth edgeworth

Edie Edie (Adam's nickname)

Edison

Edith Edith

Edmund

Edward

Effie (Eugene's nickname) < p! Elanna

Electra ilic Terra

Elinor Elineau

Eliot Eliot; Eliot; Elliot

Elizabeth

Ella Ella (Eleanor's nickname)

Ellen Ellen (Eleanor's nickname)

Ellis

Elsie Elsee (Alice's nickname)

Emerson

Emily Emily; Emily

Emma Emma

Emmie, Emmy Amy (Emma's nickname)

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