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English
English : regional name for someone from the county of Devon. In origin, this is from an ancient British tribal name, Latin Dumnonii, perhaps meaning ‘worshipers of the god Dumnonos’.Irish (County Louth) : variant of Devine.
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English (Devon and Cornwall)
English (Devon and Cornwall) : topographic name for someone who lived by the ‘meadow (Old English mǣd) land (Old English land)’.
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English (Devon)
English (Devon) : unexplained. This is a frequent name in OH.
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English (Devon)
English (Devon) : habitational name from a lost or unidentified place, probably in southwestern England, where the surname is most common.
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English (Devon)
English (Devon) : unexplained; perhaps a variant of Matters, itself a variant of Matter.
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English (Devon; of Cornish origin)
English (Devon; of Cornish origin) : topographic name for someone who lived by a menhir, i.e. a tall standing stone erected in prehistoric times (Cornish men ‘stone’ + hir ‘long’).
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English (Devon)
English (Devon) : habitational name from any of numerous places, for example in Derbyshire, Devon, Hampshire, Norfolk, Staffordshire, and Surrey, named in Old English as ‘mill ford’, from mylen ‘mill’ (see Mill) + ford ‘ford’.Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Maolfhoghmhair ‘descendant of Maolgfhoghmhair’, a personal name meaning ‘chief of harvest’. The Gaelic name was first Anglicized as Mullover, which was later assimilated to Milford.
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English (Devon)
English (Devon) : from the rare Old English masculine personal name Mocca, which may be related to a Germanic stem mokk- ‘to accumulate’, ‘to be heaped up’, and hence may originally have been a nickname for a heavy, thickset person. Alternatively, it could be from Middle English mokke ‘trick’, ‘joke’, ‘jest’, ‘act of jeering’, a derivative of mokke(n) ‘to mock’, from Old French moquer.German : variant of Maag.German : nickname for a short, thickset man, Middle High German mocke.Dutch : nickname from Middle Dutch mocke ‘dirty or wanton woman’, ‘slut’, or from West Flemish mokke ‘fat child’.
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English (mainly Devon)
English (mainly Devon) : from a pet form of the female personal names Elizabeth or Isabel.
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English (Cornwall and Devon)
English (Cornwall and Devon) : possibly a variant of Luxton.
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English (Devon)
English (Devon) : habitational name. There is a Lidstone in Oxfordshire, but the concentration of the surname in Devon would suggest that this is not the source.
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English (chiefly Devon)
English (chiefly Devon) : nickname for a thin or lean person, from Middle English lene ‘lean’ (Old English hlǣne).Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Liatháin (see Lehane).Reduced form of Scottish McLean.
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English (Devon)
English (Devon) : habitational name from any of the five villages of this name in Devon or from Loscombe in Powerstock, Dorset, all probably named from Old English hlÅse ‘pigsty’ + cumb ‘valley’ (see Coombe).
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English (Devon)
English (Devon) : perhaps a variant of Millman.
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English (Devon)
English (Devon) : probably from a local vernacular derivative of Lucas. However, Reaney posits an Old English personal name, Lugga, from which this name could be derived.
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English (Devon and Cornwall)
English (Devon and Cornwall) : habitational name from any of various places in eastern Cornwall now known as Lidcott, Lydcott, Ludcott, and Lidcutt. All are named from Old Cornish luit ‘gray’ + cuit ‘wood’.
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English
English unisex name derived from the county name, from a British tribal name, DEVON means "worshiper of the god Dumnonos."Â
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English (Devon and Cornwall)
English (Devon and Cornwall) : unexplained; most probably a pet form of Luke. See also Leakey.
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English (Devon)
English (Devon) : variant spelling of Luscombe.
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English (mainly Devon and Cornwall)
English (mainly Devon and Cornwall) : variant spelling of Mitchell.
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English (Devon)
English (Devon) : unexplained.Croatian : unexplained.
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Hindu, Indian, Traditional
Name of a Place
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Muslim
Of noble birth.
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British, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Pakistani
Form of Natasha
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Dutch American
Equivalent of 'de' in French names. Van was sometimes converted from a surname prefix to a given...
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American, Australian, British, English, French, Indian, Latin, Sikh
Jay Bird; Happy
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Hebrew
(גּׄמֶר) Hebrew unisex name GOMER means "to finish, to complete." In the bible, this is the name of both the son of Japhet and the wife of the Prophet Hosea.
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Moon Salty
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British, English
Little Famous One
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Irish
From county Kildare.
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Portuguese
Portuguese form of German Alfihar, OLAVO means "elf army."
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Of or pertaining to the lowest period of the Devonian age. (See the Diagram, under Geology.) The Corniferous period has been so called from the numerous seams of hornstone which characterize the later part of the period, as developed in the State of New York.
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Of or pertaining to Devon or Devonshire in England; as, the Devonian rocks, period, or system.
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The Devonian age or formation.
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Of or pertaining to, or designating, the older division of geological time during which life is known to have existed, including the Silurian, Devonian, and Carboniferous ages, and also to the life or rocks of those ages. See Chart of Geology.
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A genus of fossil ganoid fishes found in the old red sandstone or Devonian formation. The head is large, and protected by a broad shield-shaped helmet prolonged behind into two lateral points.
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A genus of trilobites, of many species, common in the Upper Silurian and Devonian rocks.
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A genus of fossil trees of the Devonian and Carboniferous ages, having the exterior marked with scars, mostly in quincunx order, produced by the separation of the leafstalks.
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A genus of fossil fishes, found in Devonian and carboniferous strata; -- so named from their round, sculptured spines.
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One of an extinct genus of fossil cephalopods, allied to the Ammonites. The earliest forms are found in the Devonian formation, the latest, in the Triassic.
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A genus of Devonian fossil fishes with winglike appendages. The head and most of the body were covered with large bony plates. See Placodermi.
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A genus of trilobites found in the Silurian and Devonian formations. Phacops bufo is one of the most common species.
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One of a breed of hardy cattle originating in the country of Devon, England. Those of pure blood have a deep red color. The small, longhorned variety, called North Devons, is distinguished by the superiority of its working oxen.
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An extensive genus of fossil ferns, of which species have been found from the Devonian to the Triassic formation.
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Any one of numerous species of extinct arthropods belonging to the order Trilobita. Trilobites were very common in the Silurian and Devonian periods, but became extinct at the close of the Paleozoic. So named from the three lobes usually seen on each segment.
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A genus of fossil corals abundant in the Silurian and Devonian rocks, having polygonal cells with perforated walls.