What is the name meaning of NORRIS. Phrases containing NORRIS
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NORRIS
Boy/Male
Christian & English(British/American/Australian)
Caretaker
Male
English
English surname transferred to forename use, from the Old Norman French word norreis, NORRIS means "from the north."
Surname or Lastname
English, Scottish, and Irish
English, Scottish, and Irish : variant of Norris 3.
Surname or Lastname
English, Scottish, and Irish
English, Scottish, and Irish : regional name for someone who had migrated from the North (i.e. further north in England, or from Scotland or Scandinavia), from Old French nor(r)eis ‘northerner’.English, Scottish, and Irish : topographic name for someone who lived in a house on the north side of a settlement or estate, from Middle English north ‘north’ + hous ‘house’.English, Scottish, and Irish : occupational name for a wet-nurse or foster mother, from Old French nurice, norrice (Latin nutrix, genitive nutricis).
Boy/Male
English Scottish Teutonic American French
From the north.
Boy/Male
American, Australian, British, Christian, English, French, German, Latin, Scottish, Teutonic
Northerner; Nurse; Caretaker; Man of the North
Surname or Lastname
English, Scottish, and Irish
English, Scottish, and Irish : variant of Norris 3.
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English (mainly southern)
English (mainly southern) : from the Old French habitational name and personal name Paris (see Paris 1). Parrish is the most common form of the name in English, and is the result of confusion between -s and -sh (compare Norris), reinforced by folk etymological association with the modern English word parish. In the 17th and 18th centuries the surname was occasionally bestowed on foundlings brought up at the expense of the parish.
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Scottish
Scottish : variant of Norris.English : variant of Northey.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name, from Middle English north ‘north’, for someone who lived in the northern part of a village or to the north of a main settlement (compare Norrington 1), or a regional name for someone who had migrated from the north. Compare Norris 1.Irish : regional name for someone from Ulster, the northern area of Ireland, in part as an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac an Ultaigh (see McNulty) or (in Westmeath) of Ultach.German : from a short form of a Germanic personal name composed with a cognate of Old High German nord ‘north’.
Boy/Male
British, English, German
Variant of Norris
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Boy/Male
Hindu
The son of evening
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Prayer
Girl/Female
American, Australian, British, Christian, English, Greek, Hebrew
Bitter; Sea of Bitterness; Blend of Marie; Mary and Lyn; Person from Magdala
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English
English : variant of Isham.
Girl/Female
Arabic, Muslim
A Fragrant Weed
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Having Long Life
Girl/Female
Bengali, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Sanskrit, Tamil
Humming; Buzzing of a Bee
Surname or Lastname
English
English : unexplained.German : possibly from a Germanic stem sam used of a personal name of unknown meaning.
Girl/Female
Indian
Aware, Knowing
Girl/Female
Hebrew
Flower.
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