- Blanchard - blohn-SHAHR
Blanchard is a French family name. It is also used as a given name. It derives from the Old French word blanchart which meant “whitish, bordering upon white”. It is also an obsolete term for a white horse.
Meaning: White or fair
Origin: French - Bleu - BLEH
The meaning of the name “Bleu” is: “Blue”. Categories: Color Names.
Meaning: The color blue
Origin: French - Boone - BOON
Boone Name Meaning. English (of Norman origin): from a nickname meaning 'good', from Old French bon 'good'.
Meaning: A good person
Origin: French - Boswell - BOZ-wehl
Boswell Name Meaning. Scottish (of Norman origin): habitational name from Beuzeville in Seine Maritime, France, named with Old French Beuze (a personal name probably of Germanic origin) + ville 'settlement'.
- Boyce - BOIS
Boyce Name Meaning. Scottish, northern Irish, and English: topographic name for someone who lived by a wood, from Old French bois 'wood'. English: patronymic from the Middle English nickname boy 'lad', 'servant', or possibly from an Old English personal name Boia, of uncertain origin.
- Branch - BRANCH
Meanings and history of the name Branch: | Edit. English surname meaning "limb of a tree", derived from the Latin word branca, meaning "foot or paw". Famous real-life people named Branch: | Edit. Branch Rickey, MLB general manager who broke the color barrier in baseball by signing Jackie Robinson to the Brooklyn ...
- Bunyan - BUN-yən
Bunyan Name Meaning. English (Bedfordshire): nickname for someone disfigured by a lump or hump, from a diminutive of Old French bugne 'swelling', 'protuberance'. The term bugnon was also applied to a kind of puffed-up fruit tart, and so the surname may also have been a metonymic occupational name for a baker of these.
- Burrell - bur-EL
English, Scottish, and northern Irish: probably a metonymic occupational name for someone who made or sold coarse woolen cloth, Middle English burel or borel (from Old French burel, a diminutive of b(o)ure); the same word was used adjectively in the sense 'reddish brown' and may have been applied as a nickname ...
- Butch - BOOCH
The name Butch is an American baby name. In American the meaning of the name Butch is: Butcher.
- Butler - BUT-lər
Butler Name Meaning. English and Irish: from a word that originally denoted a wine steward, usually the chief servant of a medieval household, from Norman French butuiller (Old French bouteillier, Latin buticularius, from buticula 'bottle').
- Cardwell - KAHRD-wel
Surname Cardwell is of Irish descent, meaning 'cold waters'.
- Carlisle - KAHR-liel
English Meaning: The name Carlisle is an English baby name. In English the meaning of the name Carlisle is: From the protected tower; from the walled city. Also a place name in Britain.
- Cassandra - kə-SAN-drə/kə-SAHN-drə
The name Cassandra is a Greek baby name. In Greek the meaning of the name Cassandra is: Unheeded prophetess. Cassandra was a Trojan prophetess, daughter of King Priam. In Homer's 'The Iliad' Cassandra's prediction of the fall of Troy was unheeded.
- Chante - shahn-TAY
French Meaning: The name Chante is a French baby name. In French the meaning of the name Chante is: Singer. To sing.
Meaning: Being sung
Origin: French - Chapelle - shah-PEHL
Chappelle is a surname of French origin, a variant of the word "chapelle" meaning "chapel". Notable people with the name include: Bill Chappelle, American baseball player. Charles W. Chappelle (1872-1941), African-American aviation pioneer.
- Chaucer - CHAW-sər
The surname Chaucer is thought to have one of the following derivations: The name Chaucer frequently occurs in the early Letter Books and in French language of the time it meant "shoemaker", which meaning is also recorded in the "Glossary of Anglo-Norman and Early English Words".
- Cheney - CHAY-nee
The name Cheney is a French baby name. In French the meaning of the name Cheney is: From the oak wood. Oak tree; oak-hearted.
Meaning: An oak tree or grove
Origin: French - Chesney - CHEHZ-nee
Chesney Name Meaning. English, northern Irish, and French: topographic name for someone who lived by or in an oak wood, from Old French chesnai 'oak grove'.
Meaning: The person who dwells near the oak grove
Origin: French - Chevalier - sheh-vah-LYEH
Chevalier Name Meaning. French: from Old French chevalier 'knight' (literally 'horseman', 'rider', from Late Latin caballarius, a derivative of caballus 'horse'). In the Middle Ages only men of comparative wealth were able to afford the upkeep of a riding horse.
Meaning: A member of the nobility
Origin: French,
Latin - Chevy - SHEH-vee
The name Chevy is a French baby name. In French the meaning of the name Chevy is: Horseman; knight. An abbreviation of Chevalier. Actor-comedian Chevy Chase.
Meaning: A member of the nobility
Origin: French,
Latin - Cloe - klo-AY
Origin of the name Chloe: Derived from the Greek Khloē (blooming, verdant). The name was used as a summer epithet of Demeter, the Greek goddess of agriculture and fertility. From A World of Baby Names by Teresa Norman.Buy the book.
- Cornett - kor-NET
Meaning & History. Derived from Old French cornet meaning "horn", referring to one who worked as a horn blower. Home » Names.
Meaning: Dwelling in the cornel tree
Origin: French - Cort - KOHRT
English Meaning: The name Cort is an English baby name. In English the meaning of the name Cort is: Courtier; court attendant.
- Cosette - KAW-zet
1. My name is Cosette and I've heard it meant "Victory over the People" or "Victory of War" or "Little Pet". ― cosettesanchez 8/3/2005. 0. Cosette, meaning "Victory in War" or "Triumph in War" is also the name of the lead woman in "Les Miserables", a French play about the French Revolution.
- Dabney - DAB-nee
English (of both Norman and Huguenot origin): altered form of French d'Aubigné, a habitational name for someone from any of the various places in northern France called Aubigny or Aubigné, named with the Romano-Gallic personal name Albinius (a derivative of Latin albus 'white'; compare Alban and Albin) + the locative ...
- Darold - DAR-əld
Darold (/ˈdɛəroʊld/ DAIR-ohld) is a masculine name of American origin. The name is a blend of Daryl and Harold or Gerald. The masculine name Harold is of Scandinavian origin, and its meaning is "army ruler". Herald is also literally "one who proclaims".
- Dash - DASH
Dash Name Meaning. English: topographic name for someone who lived near an ash tree, or a habitational name from a place named with the Old English word æsc (see Ash).
- Dashiell - DASH-ee-əl
Dashiell is an Anglicized form of the old French surname de Chiel, which is of unknown meaning. The de Chiels were French Huguenots who moved to Scotland, then England, then Virginia and finally Maryland. The name changed from de Chiel to Da Chiell, to Da Shiell, to Dashiell.
Meaning: Coming from Chiel
Origin: French - Delano - DEL-ə-no
From a French surname, originally De la Noye, indicating that the bearer was from a place called La Noue (ultimately Gaulish meaning "wetland, swamp"). It has been used in honour of American president Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), whose middle name came from his mother's maiden name.
Meaning: Coming from swamps
Origin: French - Delmar - DEL-mər
Spanish Meaning: The name Delmar is a Spanish baby name. In Spanish the meaning of the name Delmar is: Of the sea.
