A History of Surnames

Pinterest Whitaker is an English surname deriving from a place name made of up of Old English elements hwit (white) and   æcer (cultivated land, field), meaning "white field" though spelled  Whiteacre it means "wheat field", the first part derived from Old English  hwǣte (wheat). Origin: Old English Variants : Whittaker  Whitacre  Whittakers  Whiteacre  Witacre 

Pinterest Origin: Proto-Brythonic Meaning: Glasgow is the name of a city in Scotland. Though the name is uncertain it could mean "green hollow" or "gray hollow" from Proto-Brythonic elements glas (gray or green) and cau (hollow). It was likely given to someone who came from a place called Glasgow. Variants : Glasgu (Medieval English)

Pinterest Origin: Celtic, Latin Meaning: Davenport comes from a habitational surname, the name from a place in the town of Cheshire. The first part of the name is derived from the Dane river, apparently the Celtic cognate of Middle Welsh dafnu meaning "to drop, to trickle", while the second element of the name comes from Old English port via Latin portus  meaning "port, harbor". I've also seen Davenport as being an anglicized form of   Ó Donndubhartaigh , meaning "descendant of   Donndubhartach", a personal name made up of Irish donn meaning both "brown, brown-haired" and "chief, lord, noble", dubh meaning "black" and artach "nobleman" or "rock".  Variants : Devenport  Davenporte  Davinport  Devonport Devomporte 

Pinterest Origin: Japanese Meaning: Kaneko is a Japanese surname meaning "gold child" with the kanji  金子. Kaneko can also be used as a given name for girls.

Pinterest Origin: Old Norse, Yiddish, Welsh Meaning: Guild is a surname that possibly came about as a nickname for someone who played an important role in a medieval guild, which comes from Old Norse gildi (payment, guild), though it could also possibly be the Scottish form of another surname, Gould, a variant of Gold meaning"gold" from Yiddish. Guild could also be the Anglicized form of Welsh surname Gwyllt meaning "wild".

Pinterest Origin: English Meaning: Addams is a patrynomic surname meaning "son of Adam", Adam being a given name derived from Hebrew name which has various meanings such as "man", "red", or "ground, earth" and "blood". Variants : Adams  Adamson