Origins of Surnames

1. Occupations
2. Geographics
3. Patronymics
4. Personal Characteristics

Occupations

Baker	Boulanger (fr)	Panettiere (it)
Butcher	Boucher (fr)
Cook
Cooper (makes barrels)
Hooper (also makes barrels, but different derivation from "Cooper")
Carpenter
Mason (builds with stone)
Thatcher (thatches roofs)
Shoemaker
Fisher			Pescatore (it)
Hooker (actually, a fisherman who uses a hook)
Barber
Farmer
Fletcher (makes arrows)
Bowman (uses arrows)
Archer (uses arrows, too)
Falconer (who needs arrows, when you have a bird of prey?)
Fowler (one who hunts fowl, or one who raises them?)
Hunter
Huntsman
Herdsman
Sheperd, Shepard	Bergeron (fr)	Pastore (it)
Taylor ("tailor", alternate spelling)
Weaver
Tyler?
Turner (works a lathe - a woodturner)
Skinner
Smith	Deforges (fr)	Ferrero, Fabbro, Ferrari (it)
Goldsmith
Miner
Harper
Singer
Player
Potter (makes pottery)
Porter (attends or guards a door or gate)
Carrier
Painter
Fuller (launderer -- you know, as in "fuller's soap")
Plummer, Plumber
Bishop	Escobedo (sp)
Pope
Monk
Bridger?
Clark ("Clerk", alternate spelling)
Cryer ("Crier", as in "town crier", alternate spelling)
Carter (drives or pulls a cart) (derived from "Cartier" (Fr)?)
Penman
Woodman
Sawyer (woodcutter)
Forester, Parker, Woodward (people who took care of the "ancient woodlands", what Yanks call "old-growth forests", in 1600s England)
Ostler ("Hostler," arranges lodging for people; an innkeeper? alternate spelling)
King
Prince
Duke
Lord
Baron
Knight     Chevalier (fr) Cavaliere (it)
McQueen (?)
Page
Squires
Consigliere (Italian)
Wheelwright
Wainwright (a wagon maker)
Cartwright
Boatwright

(These have to be names that follow a place, like "New town" turning into
"Newton," not places named after people, like "Greeley".  If a place is
named after a person, then we must go one step further back, and ask
how that person got his or her surname.)

Dupuis (of Le Puis, France)   Dal Pozzo (it)  the origins of "Depew"?
  ("le puis" and "il pozzo" both mean "from the well")
Newton ("new town")	Villeneuve (fr)	Villanova (it)
Wellington
Washington
Hamilton
Hampton
French
Deutsch ("German")
Welch
Garfield
Blomstrom ("strom" means "stream" in Dutch)
Angstrom
Hedstrom
Roosevelt ("velt" means "field in Dutch)
Ford (a river crossing)
Alford
Sanford
Stanford
Towne
Upton (uptown)
Grove
Rivers     Rivera (sp)	delRio (sp)
Church     Kirk
Newkirk (new church)
Napolitano
Romano

Adams
Branson
Emerson
Ericson
Ferguson
Frederickson
Gibson (!)
Gilson
Hansen
Jackson
Jacobsen
Jefferson
Jensen
Johnson
Magnusson
Mortenson
Nilson, Nelson, Nielson
Olsen
Paulson      Pawlowski (Polish)
Peterson     Piotrowski (Polish)
Robertson
Wilson
All of the O'Names and McNames.

Little
Small
Quick
Swift
Wise
Long
Short
Stout
Brown
Black     Schwartz (d)	Nero (it)
White     Weiss (d)     Leblanc (fr)     Lobianco (it)
Gray
Green
Crowfoot
Truman
Meyer, Major (it means "bigger")
Minor (it means "smaller")
Elder
Younger
Young
Fairchild?
Whitehead
Curley / Curly