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English
English : nickname for a large, well-built man, from Middle English stack ‘haystack’ (from Old Norse stakkr). The surname is now less common in England than in Ireland (especially County Kerry), where it was first taken in the 13th century; it has been Gaelicized Stac.German : variant of Staack.Americanized form of Polish or Czech Stach.
Girl/Female
German
Little and Womanly; Female Version of Charles
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English
English : from the Norman personal name Godefrei, Godefroi(s), composed of the Germanic elements god, got ‘god’ + frid(u), fred ‘peace’. See also Jeffrey.Americanized form of Irish Mac Gothraidh or Ó Gothraidh, patronymics from the Irish equivalent of Godfrey (see 1 above), borrowed from the Vikings.Americanized form of the French surname Godefroi, of the same origin as 1.An Irish family of the name Godfrey originated in Romney, Kent. The first of them to settle in Ireland was Colonel John Godfrey, who was rewarded with lands in Kerry for his services in the 1641 rebellion.
Male
English
English unisex name derived from the name of an Irish county, CiarraÃ, KERRY means "Ciar's people."Â Compare with strictly feminine Kerry.
Surname or Lastname
Irish
Irish : sometimes of English origin, but in County Kerry it is usually an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó DuinnÃn (see Dineen).English : patronymic from a variant of Dunn 2.Sir George Downing (1623–84), baronet, member of Parliament, and ambassador to the Netherlands in the time of both Cromwell and King Charles II, was the second graduate of the first class (1642) at Harvard College. He was born in Dublin, Ireland, the son of Emmanuel Downing of the Inner Temple and his second wife, Lucy Winthrop, sister of John Winthrop. The family emigrated to New England in 1638 and settled at Salem, MA.
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Irish (Kerry)
Irish (Kerry) : Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Saoghair, which in turn may be a patronymic from a Gaelicized form of the Old English personal name Saeger (see 2 below).English : patronymic from a Middle English personal name Saher or Seir (see Sayer 1).Americanized form of French Cyr.Richard Sears came to Plymouth, MA, from England about 1630.
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English and Irish (of Norman origin)
English and Irish (of Norman origin) : habitational name from Moulineaux in Seine-Maritime, so named from the plural of Old French moulineau, a diminutive of moulin ‘mill’. In some cases this may have been an occupational name as in 2.French : occupational name for a miller, from molineux, a variant of Old French molineur ‘miller’.Irish : Anglicized form of Mulligan.Irish (Co. Kerry) : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Maol an Mhuaidh ‘descendant of Maol an Mhuaidh (follower of the noble)’.
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English
English : of uncertain origin. Early examples, as for example William Spring (Yorkshire 1280), all point to a personal name or nickname, perhaps going back to an Old English byname derived from the verb springan ‘to jump or leap’ (see Springer 1). Alternatively, it could be a topographic name from Middle English spring ‘young wood’, ‘spring’. Compare Springer. Reaney derives the surname from the word denoting the season, although the word is not attested in this sense until the 16th century, the usual Middle English word being lenten. Compare Lenz. The surname has also been established in Ireland (County Kerry) for several centuries.German : from Middle High German sprinc, Middle Low German sprink ‘spring’, ‘well’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived by a spring or well, or habitational name from Springe near Hannover.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Springer.John Spring emigrated from England and settled in Watertown, MA, in 1634.
Girl/Female
Gaelic American Irish
Dark haired.
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English
English : habitational name from any of various places called Brandon, in County Durham, Northumbria, Norfolk, Suffolk, Warwickshire, and elsewhere. Most are named with Old English brÅm ‘broom’, ‘gorse’ + dÅ«n ‘hill’. One in Lincolnshire, however, may be named with the Brant river, on which it stands; Ekwall derives the river name from Old English brant ‘steep’, presumably with reference to its steep banks.Irish (Kerry) : Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Breandáin ‘son of Breandán’.French : from the Old French oblique case of the personal name Brand, of Germanic origin (see Brand 1).
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English and Irish
English and Irish : see Mayberry. In Ireland this form is common in County Kerry.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Sealey.Welsh : from the personal name Selyf or Selau, medieval Welsh vernacular forms of Solomon.Irish : probably a variant of Shealy (in counties Kerry and Cork); in other areas it is of English or Welsh origin, as in 1 and 2.
Girl/Female
Irish
ciar means “dark†and probably implies “dark hair and brown eyes.†County Kerry means “the land of the descendant of Ciar†who was the love-child of the High King Fergus Mac Roth and the legendary Queen Maebh.
Boy/Male
Celtic American Gaelic Irish
Dark.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : patronymic from Hick. This surname has also been established in the Irish county of Kerry since the 17th century.
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English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by an ash tree, a variant of Ash by misdivision of Middle English atten ash ‘at the ash’, or a habitational name from any of the many places in England and Wales named Nash, from this phrase, as for example Nash in Buckinghamshire, Herefordshire, or Shropshire. The name was established from an early date in Wales and Ireland.Jewish : of unknown origin, possibly an Americanized form of one or more like-sounding Jewish surnames.The surname Nash was taken to Ireland from England or Wales by a family who established themselves in Co. Kerry in the 13th century, during the second wave of Anglo-Norman settlement.
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English
English : variant of Petit. The name is also found in Ireland, the main branch there having been established in County Kerry in the 17th century by Sir William Petty.
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Irish
Irish : part-translation of Gaelic Mac Cuilinn (see McCullen) in County Kerry, and in Ulster sometimes a variant of McQuillan, also an Anglicized form of Mac Cuilinn. It is rarely of English origin.English : variant spelling of Holley.Possibly an altered spelling of Czech or Slovak Holý (see Holy).
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English
English : habitational name from places in Cumbria, Lincolnshire, and Northamptonshire. The first gets its name from Old English HaferingtÅ«n ‘settlement (Old English tÅ«n) associated with someone called Hæfer’, a byname meaning ‘he-goat’. The second probably meant ‘settlement (Old English tÅ«n) of someone called Hæring’. Alternatively, the first element may have been Old English hæring ‘stony place’ or hÄring ‘gray wood’. The last, recorded in Domesday Book as Arintone and in 1184 as Hederingeton, is most probably named with an unattested Old English personal name, Heathuhere.Irish (County Kerry and the West) : adopted as an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hArrachtáin ‘descendant of Arrachtán’, a personal name from a diminutive of arrachtach ‘mighty’, ‘powerful’.Irish (County Kerry) : adopted as an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hIongardail, later Ó hUrdáil, ‘descendant of Iongardal’.Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hOireachtaigh ‘descendant of Oireachtach’, a byname meaning ‘member of the assembly’ or ‘frequenting assemblies’.
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English (Devon)
English (Devon) : unexplained.Irish (County Kerry) : reduced form of Tramant, which MacLysaght describes as ‘a family of pre-Norman origin’.
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