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English (now mainly East Midlands) and Scottish
English (now mainly East Midlands) and Scottish : topographic name for someone who lived on land belonging to the Church, from northern Middle English kirk ‘church’ + land ‘land’. There are several villages named with these elements, for example in Cumbria, and in some cases the surname will have arisen from these. Exceptionally, Kirkland in Lancashire has as its second element Old Norse lundr ‘grove’.
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Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic)
Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : metronymic from the Yiddish female name Itke, a pet form of the biblical name Judith + the Slavic possessive suffix -in.English : from the Middle English personal name Idkin, a pet form of the personal name Ida.
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English (mainly East Midlands)
English (mainly East Midlands) : habitational name from any of various places. Melbourne in former East Yorkshire is recorded in Domesday Book as Middelburne, from Old English middel ‘middle’ + burna ‘stream’; the first element was later replaced by the cognate Old Norse meðal. Melbourne in Derbyshire has as its first element Old English mylen ‘mill’, and Melbourn in Cambridgeshire probably Old English melde ‘milds’, a type of plant.
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English (northern and eastern)
English (northern and eastern) : variant spelling of Milner.
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English (East Anglia)
English (East Anglia) : patronymic from the Middle English personal name Jenkin.
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Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic)
Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : variant spelling of Laski.English : habitational name from either of two places in Cornwall named Lesquite; one, in Lanivet, is named from Cornish lost ‘tail’ + cos ‘wood’; the other, in Pelynt, is from Cornish is ‘below’ + cos.
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English (mainly East Anglia)
English (mainly East Anglia) : habitational name from Lyng in Norfolk, so named from Old English hlinc ‘hillside’, or from either of two places in Norfolk and Lincolnshire named Ling, from Old Norse lyng ‘ling’, ‘heather’. There is also a Lyng in Somerset, so named from Old English lengen ‘long place’.German : variant of Link.Chinese : from a word meaning ‘ice’. In ancient times, the imperial palace was able to enjoy ice in the summer by storing winter ice in a cellar, entrusting its care to an official called the iceman. This post was once filled during the Zhou dynasty (1122–221 bc) by a descendant of Kang Shu, the eighth son of Wen Wang, who had been granted the state of Wei soon after the establishment of the Zhou dynasty. Descendants of this particular iceman adopted the word for ice, ling, as their surname.
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Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic)
Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : variant of Levin.English : variant of Leven 3.Breton (Lévéné) : from an old female personal name derived from Old Breton louuinid ‘joy’, ‘gaiety’. The name gained popularity as it belonged to the mother of a Breton saint, Gwenael.Altered spelling of French Lavigne, Lavin, Lavine, Levin, or various other like-sounding surnames.
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English (mainly East Anglia)
English (mainly East Anglia) : variant of Hewlett.
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English (mainly East Anglia)
English (mainly East Anglia) : metonymic occupational name for a sailor, from Middle Dutch hoey ‘cargo ship’.Northern Irish : variant of Howey 2 and Haughey.Scottish : habitational name from some unidentified minor place named Hoy, or from the Orkney island of Hoy, which was named in Old Norse as Háey, from há ‘high’ + ey ‘island’.Danish (Høy) : nickname for a tall person, from høj ‘high’.
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English (East Anglian)
English (East Anglian) : from a Middle English personal name, Keterych. Reaney suggests this is a blend of the Old Norse name Ketill (see Kettle) with the common Old English name element rīc, as in Burridge.
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English (East Anglia)
English (East Anglia) : metonymic occupational name for a cobbler, or perhaps a metonymic occupational name for a maker of cobblers’ lasts (see Laster).German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : metonymic occupational name for a porter, from Middle High German last; German Last or Yiddish last ‘burden’, ‘load’.Dutch : metonymic occupational name as in 2, from Middle Dutch last ‘load’, ‘burden’; or a nickname for an awkward character, from Dutch last ‘trouble’, ‘nuisance’.French : habitational name from a place so named in Puy-de-Dôme.
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English (East Anglia)
English (East Anglia) : unexplained.
Male
English
English unisex name derived from the holiday name "Easter," which is related to Old English Eosturmónaþ/Eastermónaþ, EASTER means "April."
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English (East Anglia)
English (East Anglia) : variant of Lester.English (East Anglia) : occupational name for a maker of cobblers’ lasts, from Middle English last, lest, the wooden form in the shape of a foot used for making or repairing shoes (Old English lÇ£ste from lÄst ‘footprint’).
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English (East Anglia)
English (East Anglia) : variant of Jobe.
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English (East Anglia)
English (East Anglia) : unexplained. There is a Larter Farm in Norfolk, but whether the place name gave rise to the surname or vice versa is not clear.
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Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic)
Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : variant of Libson, a metronymic from the Yiddish female personal name Libe, from Yiddish ‘love’.Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : patronymic from the Yiddish personal name Lipe (a short form of Lipman).English : patronymic from Lipp 2.English : habitational name from Lipson in Devon, which is possibly named from Old English hlÄ«ep ‘leap’, ‘steep place’ + stÄn ‘stone’.
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English (East Midlands)
English (East Midlands) : unexplained; possibly a variant of Marrin.
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Polish, German, and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic)
Polish, German, and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : from Polish litwin, an ethnic name for someone from Lithuania (Polish Litwa, Lithuanian Lietuva, a word of uncertain etymology, perhaps a derivative of the river name Leità ). In the 14th century Lithuania was an independent grand duchy which extended from the Baltic to the shores of the Black Sea. It was united with Poland in 1569, and was absorbed into the Russian empire in 1795. The region referred to as Lite in Ashkenazic culture encompassed not only Lithuania but also Latvia, Estonia, Belarus, parts of northern Ukraine, and parts of northeastern Poland.English : from an Old English personal name, Lēohtwine, composed of the elements lēoht ‘light’, ‘bright’ + wine ‘friend’.
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Hindu, Indian
Pride
Male
Swedish
Swedish form of Old Norse Ãsbjorn, ESBEN means "divine-bear."
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English
 Pet form of English Theodora, THEA means "gift of God." Compare with another form of Thea.
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Indian
To gain a victory over
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Native American
Little robe.
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Hindu, Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Happy; Brave; Warrior of Peace
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English
English : variant spelling of Bridges, a variant of Bridge.
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Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Malayalam, Marathi
A New Flower
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American, British, English, German, Greek, Swedish
Pure
Boy/Male
Indian, Sanskrit
Ten Flamed
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EAST
v. i.
To veer to the east; -- said of the wind.
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Situated or dwelling in the east; oriental; as, an eastern gate; Eastern countries.
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Situated, directed, or moving toward the east; as, the easterly side of a lake; an easterly course or voyage.
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The day on which the festival is observed; Easter day.
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Relating to the Eastern Islands; East Indian.
adv.
Toward, or in the direction of, the east.
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Going toward the east, or in the direction of east; as, an eastern voyage.
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A piece of money coined in the east by Richard II. of England.
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Toward the rising sun; or toward the point where the sun rises when in the equinoctial; as, the east gate; the east border; the east side; the east wind is a wind that blows from the east.
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Relating to the money of the Easterlings, or Baltic traders. See Sterling.
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A native of, or a dweller in, the East Indies.
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Most eastern.
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Toward the east; in the direction of east from some point or place; as, New Haven lies eastward from New York.
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The distance measured toward the east between two meridians drawn through the extremities of a course; distance of departure eastward made by a vessel.
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A native of a country eastward of another; -- used, by the English, of traders or others from the coasts of the Baltic.
v. i.
To move toward the east; to veer from the north or south toward the east; to orientate.
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Coming from the east; as, it was easterly wind.
adv.
Alt. of Eastwards
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Eastward.