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Timberlake

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Timberlake is an English surname that derived from a habitational name meaning "timber lake" or "wood lake" from Old English elements timber (timber, wood) and lacu (lake, stream). Origin: Old English Pinterest Variants : Tymberlake 

Lake

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Lake is an English surname, originally derived as a topographic name for someone who lived bear a lake or a stream. The name derives from Old English lacu and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European  *leǵ- (to leak, drain).  Origin: Proto-Indo-European Pinterest

Rothwell

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Pinterest Origin: English Meaning: Rothwell is an English surname derived from a place name meaning "stream in a clearing", originally used to refer to someone who lived in a clearing by a stream, the clearing beind made by ridding it of trees. Variants : De Rottweil

Kenda

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Pinterest Origin: English Meaning: Kenda is not a surname I could find much meaning on, though it could be from English meaning "water baby" although I'm not sure of the accuracy of that. Kenda has also been used as a female given name, used as a feminine form of Kendrick or Kendall.

Davenport

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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 

Ishikawa

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Pinterest Origin: Japanese Meaning: Ishikawa is a Japanese surname meaning "stone river" ( 石川), originally referring to someone who lived near a river.

Restarick

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Pinterest Origin: Cornish Meaning: Restarick comes from a place, a farm in St. Dennis, Cornwall, made up from Cornish elements ros (hill, spur, heath) and dowrak (watery), meaning "watery heath" or "heath by the water" referring to the geographical location of the farm. Variants : Restowrack  Rostourec  Resdourek