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FIFE
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English, Scottish, and northern Irish
English, Scottish, and northern Irish : variant of Sand 1.Scottish : habitational name from Sands in Tulliallan in Fife.Comfort Sands, a revolutionary patriot born in 1748 at what is now Sands’ Point, Long Island, NY, was descended from James (Sandys) Sands (1622–95), who emigrated from Reading, Berkshire, England, to Plymouth, MA, and followed Anne Hutchinson to Westchester Co., NY, and subsequently RI. In 1661 he settled on Block Island, RI.
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English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by a tor or rocky hilltop (Old English torr, of Celtic origin), or a habitational name from any of the places named with this word, for example Torre or Torr in Devon, where the surname is frequent.English : nickname for someone thought to resemble a bull, Anglo-Norman French tor (Latin taurus).English : perhaps a habitational name from a minor place in Fife.
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Scottish
Scottish surname transferred to forename use, FIFE means "from Fife," a place said to have gotten its name from the legendary Pictish hero Fib.
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Swedish
Swedish : ornamental name formed with the common surname suffix -ell. The first element is unexplained, possibly from a place-name.English, Scottish, and northern Irish : unexplained; possibly a respelling of Scottish Kerneil, a habitational name from Carneil in Carnock, Fife.
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Scottish
Scottish : habitational name from a now forgotten place called Dundemore in Fife.English : habitational name from Dunsmoor in Devon or from an old district of Warwickshire called Dunsmore (preserved in Ryton-on-Dunsmore and Stretton-on-Dunsmore); both are named from the Old English personal name Dunn(a) ‘dark’ + mÅr ‘moor’.A Scottish family of this name was established in County Antrim, northern Ireland, in the early 17th century. From there they emigrated in 1723 to Londonderry, NH (now called Windham).
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English and Scottish (Fife and Angus)
English and Scottish (Fife and Angus) : variant of Betts.
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English, Scottish, Dutch, and French
English, Scottish, Dutch, and French : variant of Henry 1. In Scotland this surname is common in the Ayr and Fife districts; in northern Ireland it is usually from the Scottish variant Hendrie, though some examples of the name were originally as at Henry 3.
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Jewish (Ashkenazic)
Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant spelling of Levin.English, North German, and Dutch : from the Germanic personal name represented by Old English Lēofwine, Saxon Liafwin, composed of the elements lēof ‘dear’, ‘beloved’ + wine ‘friend’.English and Scottish : habitational name from places called Leven in East Yorkshire, Fife, and Renfrew. The first is probably from a stream name, possibly derived from a Celtic word meaning smooth (as in Welsh llyfyn). The Scottish place name is from a Gaelic river name meaning ‘elm river’.Dutch and North German : from a Flemish saint’s name, Lefwin (Lieven), the patron saint of Ghent (see Lewin 2).
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English
English : topographic name for someone who lived on or near a hill, Middle English mount (from Old English munt, reinforced by Old French mont).Scottish : probably a habitational name from places so called in Peeblesshire, Fife, and Lanarkshire.
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Scottish
County name in Scotland.
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Scottish
From Fifeshire.
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English
English : variant spelling of Darcy or possibly of Scottish Darsie, a habitational name from Dairsie in Fife.
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English
English : possibly a topographic name from Middle English crich(e) ‘creek’, but more likely a habitational name from Creech St. Michael in Somerset or East Creech in Dorset, both named with a Celtic element cr{u:_}g ‘mound’, ‘hill’.Scottish : habitational name from Creich in Fife.Possibly an Americanized spelling of the German names mentioned at Creach 2.
Male
Scottish
Variant spelling of Scottish Fife, FYFE means "from Fife."
Male
Scottish
Scottish (Pictish) name FIB means "poet." In legend, this is the name of a Pictish hero after whom the kingdom of Fib (later known as Fife) was named.
Girl/Female
Scottish
From Fifeshire.
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English
English : either an occupational name for a cowherd, from Middle English kineman ‘cattle man’ (not recorded except as a surname), or more probably from a Middle English survival of the Old English personal name Cynemann ‘royal man’, i.e. the king’s man.Scottish : according to Black, a reduced form of Kininmonth, a habitational name from either of two places so named in Fife; alternatively, it may be a variant of Kinmont, a habitational name from a place named Kinmont, in Annandale in the Borders.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : see Kin.Altered spelling of German Kinmann (see Kuehn).
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Scottish
From Fifeshire.
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English
English : habitational name from any of the various places, for example in Berkshire, Devon, Dorset, Oxfordshire, and Shropshire, so called from Old English sand ‘sand’ + ford ‘ford’.Scottish : habitational name from a place in Fife, formerly called Sandford (see 1), now known as St. Fort.
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Hindu
Prosperity or awakening or high quality, Advancement - to rise
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Arabic, German, Muslim
Better; Explained; Officer
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German, Irish, Norse, Scandinavian
Ancestral Heritage; Relic
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Hindu, Indian
Mannered
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African, Arabic, Gujarati, Indian, Kannada, Muslim, Sindhi, Swahili
One who Tends to the Weak and Heals; Console; The Pharaoh's Wife who Rescued Moses; The Muslim Wife of Pharaoh
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Latin Spanish
Modest.
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Hindu
Son of Lord Shiva and leader of Deva army, Kartik means Hindu month
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Arabic
Happening; Event
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Latin
Lively.
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English
English : variant of Fern 1.Norwegian : habitational name from a farm so named, from far ‘road’, ‘track’ + nes ‘headland’, ‘promontory’.
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n.
A small drum used as an accompaniment to a pipe or fife, both being played by the same person.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Fife
n.
A small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music.
imp. & p. p.
of Fife
v. i.
To play on a fife.
v. t.
To perform, as a tune, by playing on a pipe, flute, fife, etc.; to utter in the shrill tone of a pipe.
v. i.
To play on a pipe, fife, flute, or other tubular wind instrument of music.
n.
One who plays on a fife.
v.
Peaceful; favorable to, or characterized by, the music of the pipe rather than of the drum and fife.
n.
A fife; also, a rude kind of oboe or a bagpipe with an inflated skin for reservoir.
n.
A fife or small flute.
n.
One who plays on a whiffle; a fifer or piper.