Just looking at where my name originated from - not very flattering!!!

[cunny678]

Just did a quick search on this website to see where my surname originated from. CUNLIFFE Average Life Expectancy - Ancestry.com

Just wondering if anyone can come up with an origin thats worse than mine?


PS Its not true I am quite nice really

PPS You will note there is no T in my surname

 

[7ofnine]

Can't beat that. Mine's fairly predictable.

 

[Iccz]

I am shocked!

English: occupational name, from Middle English bakere, Old English bæcere, a derivative of bacan ‘to bake’. It may have been used for someone whose special task in the kitchen of a great house or castle was the baking of bread, but since most humbler households did their own baking in the Middle Ages, it may also have referred to the owner of a communal oven used by the whole village.

 

[IAN P]

They can't find mine.





Found the surname on Ancestry.co.uk. Phew.

Popular in Suffolk apparently.

 

[mjn]

Northern English and Scottish

 

[Dony]

Irish: surname adopted from Scottish by bearers of Gaelic Ó Cuinneagáin ‘descendant of Cuinneagán’, a personal name from a double diminutive of the Old Irish personal name Conn meaning ‘leader’, ‘chief’.

A bit of Scots blood in me!

 

[imightbewrong]

English: Drawer of uncommonly at once good and difficult pictoral representations of popular films, albums and tv shows.

 

[Hitby]

Traynor variant spelling of Trainor.

Irish (Ulster): reduced form of McTraynor, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Thréinfhir ‘son of Tréinfhear', a byname meaning ‘champion', ‘strong man' (from tréan ‘strong' + fear ‘man').
English: variant of Trainer.

Perfect

 

[Pincho Paxton]

Mine comes up as Martian...

 

[DrPhil]

Scottish: habitational name from a place in Berwickshire (Borders), named with Welsh gor ‘spacious’ + din ‘fort’.
English (of Norman origin) and French: habitational name from Gourdon in Saône-et-Loire, so called from the Gallo-Roman personal name Gordus + the locative suffix -o, -onis.
Irish: adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Mag Mhuirneacháin, a patronymic from the personal name Muirneachán, a diminutive of muirneach ‘beloved’.

I read before that the Gordons came to Ireland after they were run out of Scotland for sheep stealing!

 

[NooBish AbbZ 92]

can't fine mine

Abbotts.

 

[Veni Vidi Vici]

Just did a quick search on this website to see where my surname originated from. CUNLIFFE Average Life Expectancy - Ancestry.com

Just wondering if anyone can come up with an origin thats worse than mine?


PS Its not true I am quite nice really

PPS You will note there is no T in my surname

Haha. Did you not know that Cunny is slang for vagina?

 

[cunny678]

Haha. Did you not know that Cunny is slang for vagina?

Sure did and if you look at what it says about my surname in the link its spooky

PS My other nickname is Lingus!!!!

 

[shodan]

Scottish (of Norman origin): name of a powerful Scottish clan, originally a habitational name from Saint-Clair-sur-Elle in La Manche or Saint-Clair-l'Évêque in Calvados, so called from the dedication of their churches to St. Clarus (see Clare 3).

 

[la gran siete]

Scottish (of Norman origin): name of a powerful Scottish clan, originally a habitational name from Saint-Clair-sur-Elle in La Manche or Saint-Clair-l'Évêque in Calvados, so called from the dedication of their churches to St. Clarus (see Clare 3).

I could have a damned good guess but i wont.Mine is both French and English and is derived from the greek God of wine and generally having a good time.Its also the name of the patron saint of Paris

 

[la gran siete]

Sure did and if you look at what it says about my surname in the link its spooky

PS My other nickname is Lingus!!!!

me thinks you are having a laugh

 

[Billo]

My name came over with William in 1066 and should go as far back as Charlemagne

 

[andyUK101]

Nice one,

Mine

nickname from Middle English fitten ‘lying', ‘deceit' (of unknown origin).

 

[cunny678]

Doesnt look like anyone can beat mine then?

"English: habitational name from a place in Lancashire, near Rishton, recorded in 1246 as Kunteclive, from Old English ****e ‘****’ + clif ‘slope’, i.e. ‘slope with a slit or crack in it’."

 

[rousetafarian]

English: nickname for a person with red hair, from Middle English, Old French rous ‘red(-haired)’ (Latin russ(e)us). Americanized spelling of German Raus.

As I am not a ginger, I clicked through to the 'Raus' refererence and it's more appropriate;

German: nickname for a noisy or raucous person, from Middle High German

Ps OP Rishton is about 6 miles from where I live and fits the bill perfectly judging by some of the locals I crossed the side of the road to avoid

 

[IAN P]

Doesnt look like anyone can beat mine then?

" from Old English ****e ‘****’

Aye, you win.

 

[shodan]

I could have a damned good guess but i wont.Mine is both French and English and is derived from the greek God of wine and generally having a good time.Its also the name of the patron saint of Paris

Ok Gen.. ;-)
Mine is the same of a strangely famous inventor... Quite a common name really.