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RAVEN
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Slovenian
Slovenian : nickname from an old spelling of vran ‘raven’, ‘crow’, or ‘black horse’.English : variant spelling of Uren.probably from a native American language in northern Mexico : unexplaiend.
Surname or Lastname
English and Scottish
English and Scottish : from Middle English raven, used as a nickname for a thievish or dark-haired person. In some cases it may be from a personal name derived from this word, a survival into Middle English of the Old Norse byname Hrafn or of an Old English cognate name (Hræfn). A few early forms such as William atte Raven (London 1344) suggest that it may also in part be derived from a house sign.North German : from Middle Low German rave(n) ‘raven’, a nickname or an old personal name. Compare 1 above.
Surname or Lastname
English and Scottish
English and Scottish : patronymic from Raven.
Female
English
Either from the Italian city name, of unknown RAVENNA means, or a feminine form of English unisex Raven, meaning "raven (the bird)."
Surname or Lastname
French (Jérôme) and English
French (Jérôme) and English : from the medieval
personal name Jérôme (French), Jerome (English),
from Greek HierÅnymos (see Hieronymus). This achieved
some popularity in France and elsewhere, being bestowed in honor of St
Jerome (?347–420), creator of the Vulgate, the standard Latin
version of the Bible.English (of Norman origin) : from a personal
name, Gerram, composed of the Germanic elements gÄr, gÄ“r ‘spear’ + hraban ‘raven’.A Jerome is recorded in Montreal in 1655 with the secondary
surnames Beaune and Leblanc. Another bearer of the name,
from Brittany, is recorded in Montreal in 1705 with the secondary
surname
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English
English : from a common Norman personal name, Ingram, of Germanic origin, composed of the elements Ing (the name of a Germanic god) + hraban ‘raven’.
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English (Northumberland and Durham)
English (Northumberland and Durham) : either a variant of Renshaw or of Ravenshaw, a habitational name from Ravenshaw in Warwickshire, or a topographic name for someone who lived by the ‘raven wood’.
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English and Irish
English and Irish : from the common Norman personal name, T(h)erry (Old French Thierri), composed of the unattested Germanic element þeudo- ‘people’, ‘race’ + rÄ«c ‘power’. Theodoric was the name of the Ostrogothic leader (c. 454–526) who invaded Italy in 488 and established his capital at Ravenna in 493. His name was often taken as a derivative of Greek TheodÅros (see Theodore). There was an Anglo-Norman family of this name in County Cork.Irish : Anglicized (‘translated’) form of Gaelic Mac Toirdhealbhaigh (see Turley).Southern French : occupational name for a potter, from Occitan terrin ‘earthenware vase’ (a diminutive of terre ‘earth’, Latin terra).
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English
English : presumably a patronymic from a Middle English survival of Old English Ramm ‘ram’ or Hrafn ‘raven’ as a personal name.Name found among people of Indian origin in Guyana and Trinidad : probably from the personal name Ram and the English suffix -son.
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Scottish and Irish
Scottish and Irish : variant of Rainey.English (Sheffield) : habitational name from Ranah Stones in Thurlstone, South Yorkshire, named with Old Norse hrafn ‘raven’ + haugr ‘hill’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements walh ‘foreigner’ + hrafn ‘raven’.English : habitational name from a place in Sussex named Waldron, from Old English w(e)ald ‘forest’ + ærn ‘house’, ‘dwelling’. The surname is now also common in Ireland, especially in Connacht.English : This is the name of a prominent NH family, established there since the 17th century. Richard Walderne (b. c. 1615) came to New England from Alchester, Warwickshire, England, about 1640 and settled at Dover, NH.
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English
English : habitational name from Ravenscroft, a place in Cheshire, named from the genitive case of the Old English byname Hræfn ‘raven’ + Old English croft ‘paddock’, ‘smallholding’.
Boy/Male
American, British, English, German, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Jamaican, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Telugu
Raven; A Bird; Large Black Bird
Boy/Male
Tamil
Sunny, A bird
Surname or Lastname
English, French, and German
English, French, and German : from an Old French personal name of uncertain etymology. It appears to be a byname meaning ‘steadfast’, ‘enduring’, from the present participle of Old French (de)morer ‘to remain or stay’, but this may be no more than the reworking under the influence of folk etymology of a Germanic personal name. The later may be from the elements mÅd ‘courage’ + hramn ‘raven’. Another possibility is derivation from Latin Maurus + suffix -andus (following the pattern of names formed from a verbal noun, such as Amandus).French : habitational name, a variant of Morand.
Boy/Male
English
Raven.
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English
English : nickname from Gaelic and Welsh bran ‘raven’.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : Hebrew acronym consisting of ben-rabi ‘son of’ + the initials of some personal name (for example Nachman, Nahum, Nathan).
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English (West Yorkshire)
English (West Yorkshire) : apparently a habitational name, perhaps from Silver Wood in Ravenfield, West Yorkshire (although that is not recorded until 1764). The place name may refer to a wood of silver birches.
Boy/Male
German
Ruling raven.
Surname or Lastname
English and German
English and German : from the Germanic personal name Wolfram, composed of the elements wolf ‘wolf’ + hrafn ‘raven’. Both these creatures played an important role in Germanic mythology. They are usually represented in battle poetry as scavengers of the slain, while Woden (Odin) is generally accompanied by the wolves Geri and Freki and the ravens Hugin and Munin.
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n.
Any bird of the family Bucerotidae, of which about sixty species are known, belonging to numerous genera. They inhabit the tropical parts of Asia, Africa, and the East Indies, and are remarkable for having a more or less horn-like protuberance, which is usually large and hollow and is situated on the upper side of the beak. The size of the hornbill varies from that of a pigeon to that of a raven, or even larger. They feed chiefly upon fruit, but some species eat dead animals.
n.
A dangerous rock on the Italian coast opposite the whirpool Charybdis on the coast of Sicily, -- both personified in classical literature as ravenous monsters. The passage between them was formerly considered perilous; hence, the saying "Between Scylla and Charybdis," signifying a great peril on either hand.
a.
Fig.: Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation; as, they toiled hard to keep the wolf from the door.
a.
Eager for prey or gratification; as, a ravenous appetite or desire.
n.
Wolfish; ravenous.
v. t. & i.
See Raven, v. t. & i.
n.
A fine quality of sailcloth.
a.
Ravenous.
a.
Greedy in eating; very hungry; eager to devour or swallow; ravenous; gluttonous; edacious; rapacious; as, a voracious man or appetite; a voracious gulf or whirlpool.
a.
Of the color of the raven; jet black; as, raven curls; raven darkness.
n.
One who, or that which, ravens or plunders.
a.
Greedily devouring; rapacious; as, ravening wolves.
imp. & p. p.
of Raven
n.
Food obtained by violence; plunder; prey; raven.
superl.
Having a harsh, rough, grating voice or sound, as when affected with a cold; making a rough, harsh cry or sound; as, the hoarse raven.
a.
Devouring with rapacious eagerness; furiously voracious; hungry even to rage; as, a ravenous wolf or vulture.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Raven
a.
Eager in appetite or desire of gratification; affected by keen hunger; ravenous; as, an eagle or a lion sharp-set.