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Locality W Surnames Family History Resources

Surnames, their origin and their meaning

Many surnames are associated with the place/locality of where the family lived and in those cases the location is noted as the meaning.
Many surnames are associated with the occupation of the person given the name.

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Surname		Origin	Meaning
Waite		Locality	ground cleared of wood, a meadow
Wakefield		Locality	market-town in west Yorkshire, England
Wallop		Locality	Wallop, in Hampshire, England
Walpole		Locality	Walpole, a town in Norfolk, England
Walton		Locality	several villages in England
Wample		Locality	river of England
Wands		Locality	place where Woden was worshiped by the Anglo-Saxons
Warburton		Locality	township in Cheshire, England
Wardlaw		Locality	parish of Kirkhill, in Moray, Scotland
Ware		Locality	market town of Hertfordshire, England
Warren		Locality	Guarenna or Varenna, in the county of Calais, in Normandy
Warrwick		Locality	county town of Warwickshire, England
Washington		Locality	The name was taken from the place in England where the family originated; the town on the wash or salt river or creek.
Wassen		Locality	town in Switzerland
Waters		Locality	one who navigated the waters, or resided near them.
Way		Locality	A road or passage of any kind;
Wayland		Locality	Dutch, 'Weiland,' pasture-ground, meadow-land
Weeden		Locality	town in Northamptonshire
Weir		Locality	town of Hertfordshire, England
Welby		Locality	habitation in a wood or grove
Welden		Locality	A wood
Wells		Locality	person who resided by a well
Wempel		Locality	river in England
Wemple		Locality	A river of England
Wemyss		Locality	Wemyss-shire, in Fife-shire, Scotland
Wentworth		Locality	The Worth, place, on the river Went, in Northumberland, England
Westall		Locality	West-Hall
Wetherby		Locality	the wide or extended village
Wetherspoon		Locality	A grazing-place in the spur of a mountain or hill
Wetsel		Locality	town on the lower Rhine
Weyland		Locality	Dutch, Weiland' pasture-ground, meadow-land
Wheaton		Locality	a place of the same name on the river Nen, Northamptonshire, England
Whitfield		Locality	white field
Whitford		Locality	white ford
Whittaker		Locality	The north part of a graveyard allotted to the poor
Wigan		Locality	town on the river Douglass, Lancashire, England
Wiggin		Locality	a town on the river Douglass, Lancashire, England
Wilberforce		Locality	Wild-boar-foss, a dike, a ditch
Wilbraham		Locality	Wild-burgh-ham, A town in Kent England
Willoughby		Locality	The town or habitation by the willows in Lincolnshire, England
Wilton		Locality	a town in Wiltshire, England, so called from the river Willey
Wiltshire		Locality	A county in England
Winch		Locality	A place in the county of Norfolk, England
Winchester		Locality	A city of Hampshire, England
Windham		Locality	A town in the county of Norfolk, England
Windsor		Locality	A town in Berkshire, England
Wing		Locality	A village in the county of Buckingham, England
Wingfield		Locality	From the manor of Wingfield, in Suffolk, England
Winslow		Locality	From the town of Winslow, in Buckinghamshire, England
Winterton		Locality	From the village in the county of Norfolk, England
Winthrop		Locality	wine village
Wire		Locality	A market town of Hertfordshire, England
Wiswall		Locality	Weisweil, a town in Baden, on the Rhine, Germany
Witherington		Locality	The withered or dry hill. A place in Northumberland, England
Witherspoon		Locality	A grazing-place in the spur of a mountain or hill
Wodderspoon		Locality	A grazing-place in the spur of a mountain or hill
Wolsey		Locality	the Wolds-ley, from wold, a wood, a lawn
Wood		Locality	A surname very ancient in Scotland
Woodworth		Locality	The farm or place in the wood
Woolley		Locality	Wold-ley, uncultivated lands, hills without wood
Woolsey		Locality	Wolds-ley, from wold, a wood, a lawn, and sometimes a plain, and lle, or ley, a place
Worcester		Locality	A county and city of England from Saxon Were, a forest, and Cester, a camp or city

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