Surnames
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C
Chandler
English: occupational name for a maker and seller of candles, from
Middle English cha(u)ndeler (Old French chandelier, Late Latin candelarius,
a derivative of candela ‘candle’). While a medieval chandler no doubt made
and sold other articles beside candles, the extended sense of modern English
chandler does not occur until the 16th century. The name may also, more
rarely, have denoted someone who was responsible for the lighting
arrangements in a large house, or else one who owed rent in the form of wax
or candles.*
Chapman
English: occupational name for a merchant or trader,
Middle English chapman, Old English ceapmann, a compound of
ceap ‘barter’, ‘bargain’, ‘price’, ‘property’ + mann ‘man’.*
D
Ditter
German: variant of
Dieter.*
Dieter
German: from the Germanic personal name Theudhar,
composed of theud ‘people’, ‘race’ + hari, heri
‘army’.*H
Hemrich
Variant of German Hemmerich.*
Hemmerich
Hemrich Variant of German Hemmerich.*
Hemmerich
- German: habitational name from Hemmerich in the Rhineland, or from any of several places called Hemberg or Heimberg, with dialect alteration.*
- German and Dutch: from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements haim ‘home’ + ric ‘power’, ‘rule’.*
M
McKinney
- Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Cionaodha or Mac Cionaoith ‘son of Cionaodh’, a personal name which is probably composed of the elements cion ‘respect’, ‘affection’ + Aodh, a Gaelic personal name, originally the name of the Celtic god of fire. The personal name thus probably means ‘beloved of Aodh’.*
- Northern Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Coinnigh ‘son of Coinneach’, an Old Irish personal name equivalent to Scottish Kenneth. Compare Kenny. Also the Scottish name as in 1.*
T
Trego
English (Devon): probably an altered form of
an unidentified Cornish name.*
*Dictionary of American Family Names. Oxford
University Press,
ISBN 0-19-508137-4
