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English (chiefly southern Yorkshire and Lancashire)
English (chiefly southern Yorkshire and Lancashire) : habitational name from any of several places called Mos(e)ley in central, western, and northwestern England. The obvious derivation is from Old English mos ‘peat bog’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’, but the one in southern Birmingham (Museleie in Domesday Book) had as its first element Old English mūs ‘mouse’, while one in Staffordshire (Molesleie in Domesday Book) had the genitive case of the Old English byname Moll.
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English : regional name for someone from the county of Essex, which is named from Old English ēast ‘east’ + Seaxe ‘Saxons’. In England the surname is now particularly common in Birmingham.
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English : habitational name from Birmingham in the West Midlands. In Domesday Book the name is already found as Bermingeham, but it seems likely that it was originally BeornmundingahÄm ‘homestead (Old English hÄm) of the people of (-inga-) Beornmund’, a personal name composed of the elements beorn ‘young man’, ‘warrior’ + mund ‘protection’. This name is well established in Ireland (see Bermingham).
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English : probably a topographic name for someone living in the Lickey Hills, southwest of Birmingham.Perhaps an altered spelling of Scottish Leckie.
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English : (chiefly Devon) variant spelling of Sealey.English : habitational name from Selly Oak in Birmingham, named, like Shelley, from Old English scylf ‘shelf’ + lēah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’.
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English : habitational name from any of the places, for example in Gloucestershire, Northamptonshire, and Birmingham, named in Old English as cwēn tūn, from Old English as ‘the queen’s settlement’. Compare Kingston.English : from the Old French personal name Quentin, Quintin (see Quintin).English : habitational name from any of the places in northern France named for St. Quentin of Amiens, a 3rd- century Roman missionary to Gaul, for example Saint-Quentin in La Manche or Saint-Quentin-en-Tourmont in Somme, the site of his martyrdom.
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French (western)
French (western) : from a pet form of Martin 1.English : habitational name from Martineau in France. The name was also taken to England by Huguenot refugees in the 17th century (see below).Harriet Martineau (1802–76), the English writer, was the daughter of a Norwich manufacturer. She was descended from a family of French Huguenots who owned land around Poitou and Touraine in the 15th century. They included a number of surgeons in the 17th century. In the 19th century a branch of the family was firmly established in Birmingham, England; others went to North America.
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English : habitational name from a lost place in Yardley, Birmingham, recorded in 1645 as Puggmyre Farm. This derives from the name of its 13th-century landlord, Robert Pugg, whose surname is of unknown etymology, + Middle English myre ‘mire’, ‘bog’.
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English : patronymic from a pet form of Daniel. In England the name is found chiefly in Birmingham.
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : habitational name from places in Lancashire, Northumberland, and East Lothian, originally named in Old English as HwÄ«tingahÄm ‘homestead (Old English hÄm) of the people of HwÄ«ta’, a byname meaning ‘white’.Richand Whittingham and his son, also called Richard, brass founders from Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, came to New York City in 1791, where they established a successful business.
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English : from the informal England adjective Brummagem ‘of or relating to Birmingham’, hence a habitational name for someone from the city of Birmingham in the West Midlands.
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English (Lancashire)
English (Lancashire) : apparently a habitational name from a place so called, perhaps Gornalwood near Birmingham, which is probably named from Old English cweorn ‘mill’ + halh ‘recess’, ‘hollow’.
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English : habitational name from any of the various places so called. The main source is probably the one in Derbyshire, recorded in Domesday Book as Scelhadun, formed by the addition of the Old English distinguishing term scylf ‘shelf’ to the place name Haddon (from Old English hǣð ‘heath(er)’ + dūn ‘hill’). There are also places called Sheldon in Devon (from Old English scylf ‘shelf’ + denu ‘valley’) and Birmingham (from Old English scylf + dūn ‘hill’).
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Greek Italian Spanish
Pure.
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Hindu, Indian
Shining
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Hindu
Winning, Success
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Hindu, Indian
Earth
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Indian
Lit by the Moon
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Greek
Seer.
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Scottish
Pet form of Scottish Gaelic Domhnall, DOLAIDH means "world ruler."Â
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French
French form of Italian Vegliantino, VEILLANTIF means "the little vigilant one."
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Indian, Sanskrit
Intelligent; Wise
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Italian
 Italian form of Latin Cælia, probably CELIA means "heaven." Compare with another form of Celia.
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