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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
Baba			German, Bube, a boy
Babcock			Bab, a nickname for Bartholomew, and cock, small, little, a son
Baber			Bosseville; from Bosch, a wood, and ville, a village
Badger			a hawker, a peddler
Bailey			Bailiff
Balch			bald
Ballantine			A place where Bal or Belus was worshiped by the Celts
Ballantyne			A place of ancient pagan worship among the Celts
Balmer			Balm or spice dealer
Bangs			Banks
Bar			Barr, a parish in Ayrshire, Scotland
Barker			tanner
Barney			Bernard
Barr			Barr, a parish in Ayrshire, Scotland
Barrow			A circular earthen mound, marking the place of interment of some noted person
Barry			Baruch, a devout man who was interred there
Bartlett			Bartholomew-little Bart
Bathe			Bathing-Place
Bathgate			Bathing-Place Road or Way
Battcock			Bartholomew
Beacher			beach or bay
Beadle			a messenger or crier of a court
Beckett			little brook
Beckman			a brook or stream, or on a bec, or neck of land
Beckwith			Beckworth, the farm or place by the brook, from beck, a brook, and worth, a farm
Bede			devout man
Bedell			Beadle, an officer belonging to a court, university, ward, or parish
Bennett			Benedictus, blessed
Benson			son of Benjamin
Bentley			bent, bent-grass, and ley, uncultivated ground, a pasture
Beresford			Barrasford, from barra, an old word for a plain, open heath
Beverly			Belvoir, a beautiful prospect, and ley, a place or field
Biddle			Bedell and Beadle
Biggar			A town in Lanarkshire, Scotland
Blake			Ap Lake, from Ap, signifying from, or son, and Lake
Blakeman			Blackman
Bland			Mild, gentle, smooth
Blyth			Glad, gay, joyful
Boardman			One who keeps a boarding-house
Bocock			Beaucock, a fine fellow
Bolton			round hill
Bond			The father of a family
Booth			A small cottage
Bowes			Castle of Bowes with five hundred archers to defend it
Bowles			bowl
Bowman			archer
Bowyer			archer
Boyer			A name given to a Grandee among the Muscovites
Braman			Bremen, local, a city of Germany
Brett			Breton, a Briton
Brewer			A brewer of malt liquor
Brittan			A native of Britain
Britten			A native of Britain
Britton			A native of Britain
Brocklesby			a small town in England
Brome			a sprig of the broom-plant as the symbol of humility
Bronson			son of Brown
Broome			a sprig of the broom-plant as the symbol of humility
Brotherson			nephew
Brownson			son of Brown
Brunson			son of Brown
Bryan			Brian
Buck			Buck
Buckmaster			one who had the care of herds of venison
Bull			A well-known animal, powerful, fierce, and violent
Bullard			Having the disposition of a bull
Bullock			A full-grown ox
Bunting			A kind of bird
Burder			A bird-catcher
Burdett			A little bird, ett signifying young, small, tender
Burgess			An inhabitant of a borough
Burke			De Burgo the fort, castle, hill, or city
Burrell			borel lay clerks
Butler			chief Butler of Ireland, the Earls of Ormond
Butts			Butts were marks for archery

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