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English
English : topographic name for someone who lived on a plot of land with a hut, from northern Middle English sc(h)ole ‘hut’, ‘shed’ (see Scales) + croft ‘small enclosed field’.
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English : topographic name for someone who lived by an arable enclosure, normally adjoining a house, Middle English croft. There are several places in England named with this word (Old English croft), and the surname may equally be a habitational name from any of them.Possibly an Americanized spelling of Kraft.
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English : habitational name from any of the various places called Crofton, for example in Cumbria, Greater London (formerly in Kent), Hampshire, Lincolnshire, Wiltshire, and West Yorkshire. Most of these are named from Old English croft ‘paddock’, ‘vegetable garden’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’, but the one in Greater London probably has as its first element Old English cropp ‘swelling’, ‘mound’ (compare Cropper) and that in Lincolnshire Old English croh ‘saffron’ (from Latin crocus).A family called Crofton was established in Ireland by John Crofton (died 1610), who held high office under Elizabeth I and acquired vast estates when he accompanied Sir Henry Sidney, Lord Deputy, into Ireland in 1565.
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English : habitational name from a place so named from Old English hwǣte ‘wheat’ + croft ‘smallholding’. There is one such place in Derbyshire; it is also a common field name.
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English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by a small enclosed field (Old English croft) where rye (Old English ryge) was grown, or a habitational name from any of various minor places so named, such as Ryecoft in Gloucestershire or Cheshire.
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English
English : topographic name for someone who lived on a croft to the north of the main settlement, from Middle English north ‘north’ + croft ‘enclosure’, ‘small enclosed field’, or a habitational name from a place named with these elements, as for example Northcroft in Cheshire. The dialect spelling craft seems to belong to southern and western counties.
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English
English : habitational name from Chalcraft in Hampshire, named from Old English cealf ‘calf’ + croft ‘enclosure’, or a topographic name with the same meaning.
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English
English : of uncertain origin; perhaps an altered form of Croft.
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English
English : topographic name from Middle English hay, hey ‘hay’ + croft ‘field attached to a house’, ‘paddock’, or a habitational name from a minor place named with these elements, such as Haycroft in Swyncombe, Oxfordshire or Haycroft in Gloucestershire.
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English (mainly south Lancashire)
English (mainly south Lancashire) : habitational name from some place named as a smallholding (see Croft) on the spur of a hill (see Huff), e.g. Howcroft in Rimington, West Yorkshire.
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English (chiefly Lancashire)
English (chiefly Lancashire) : topographic name from Middle English asche ‘ash tree’ + croft ‘enclosure’, or a habitational name from a minor place named with these elements.
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English
English : variant of Croft.
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English
English : habitational name from Holcroft in Lancashire, so named from Old English holh ‘hollow’, ‘depression’ + croft ‘paddock’, ‘smallholding’, or from some other minor place named with the same elements.
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English (also established in Ireland)
English (also established in Ireland) : habitational name from for example Barcroft in Haworth, West Yorkshire, so named with Old English bere ‘barley’ + croft ‘paddock’, ‘smallholding’.This is the name of a family established in Ireland by William Barcroft (1612–96). They can be traced to the parish of Barcroft, Lancashire, in the reign of Henry III (1216–72).
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English
English : habitational name from any of various minor places called Bancroft, from Old English bēan ‘beans’ (a collective singular) + croft ‘paddock’, ‘smallholding’.John Bancroft came to MA on board the ‘James’ in 1632.
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English
English : topographic name for someone who lived at a moorland croft.
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English (Yorkshire and Lancashire)
English (Yorkshire and Lancashire) : habitational name from a minor place of this name, for example Cockcroft in Rishworth or Cock Croft in Bingley, both in West Yorkshire. They are named with Old English cocc ‘rooster’ + croft ‘paddock’, ‘smallholding’. In some cases it may be a topographic name with the same meaning.
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English
English : topographic name for someone who lived at a place where bees were kept, from Middle English bee ‘bee’ + croft ‘paddock’, ‘smallholding’, or a habitational name from some minor place named with these elements.
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English
English : habitational name from Ravenscroft, a place in Cheshire, named from the genitive case of the Old English byname Hræfn ‘raven’ + Old English croft ‘paddock’, ‘smallholding’.
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English (Huntingdon)
English (Huntingdon) : unexplained. Probably a habitational name from a lost or unidentified place named with the Middle English personal name Hutch + craft ‘mill’ or croft ‘paddock’.
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Hindu, Indian
A God
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Latin Irish Shakespearean
Young. In Roman mythology Juno was protectress of women and of marriage. In modern times June is...
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Australian, Danish, French, Greek, Latin
Manly; Destroyer
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Muslim
Women of dignity
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Indian
Lord Shiva
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English
English : nickname from the animal, Middle English, Old English fox. It may have denoted a cunning individual or been given to someone with red hair or for some other anecdotal reason. This relatively common and readily understood surname seems to have absorbed some early examples of less transparent surnames derived from the Germanic personal names mentioned at Faulks and Foulks.Irish : part translation of Gaelic Mac an tSionnaigh ‘son of the fox’ (see Tinney).Jewish (American) : translation of the Ashkenazic Jewish surname Fuchs.Americanized spelling of Focks, a North German patronymic from the personal name Fock (see Volk).Americanized spelling of Fochs, a North German variant of Fuchs, or in some cases no doubt a translation of Fuchs itself.
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English, French, and Spanish (MerlÃn)
English, French, and Spanish (MerlÃn) : from the Old French personal name Merlin, Latin Merlinus was derived from the Welsh personal name Myrddin. Merlinus was a Latinized form of Myrddin devised by Geoffrey of Monmouth and popularized in the Arthurian romances.Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : metronymic from the Yiddish female personal name Merle, a pet form of Miryam (see Mirkin).
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Strong and Masculine
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Oath
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American, Australian, Chinese, Greek
Most Beautiful; Diminutive of Calista
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n.
Croftland.
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One who rents and tills a small farm or helding; as, the crofters of Scotland.
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An inferior tenant; one who rents a pendicle or croft.
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A small, inclosed field, adjoining a house; a small farm.
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A glass water bottle for the table or toilet; -- called also croft.
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Land of superior quality, on which successive crops are raised.
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A close, or inclosure; a croft.
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A close; a yard; a croft; a garden; as, a cloister garth.
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A croft, or small field; a paddock.