Where does the name Ashmore originate from?
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as a first or last name?
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Londonium (spelling?) was the first name for London. Many of the oldest cities in southern europe have a roman origin.\nIf you have a favorite city name, just add a little Old Latin flare to it.  Like Project-ium or Project-opoli
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Yep..\n\nCheck out this Surname profiler.\nhttp://www.spatial-literacy.org/UCLnames/Map.aspx?name=DAVIS&year=1998&altyear=1881&country=GB&type=name\n\nThat shows you where surnames came from by using national cencus records. \n\nThe 1881 map shows that it is predominantly in the South of england on teh borders with Wales and in the Midlands:\nhttp://www.spatial-literacy.org/UCLnames/Map2.aspx?name=DAVIS&year=1998&altyear=1881&country=GB&type=name
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The name India is derived from the Old Persian version of Sindhu, the historic local appellation for the river Indus; see Origin of India's name
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The Romans called the area around Germany Germania after a tribe known as the Germani. After the 16th century, the English started applying this name to this area where the Germani lived. Some say that the root word meant neighbour or brother so the Germani were neighbours or brothers of the Celt.\n\nAfter the Germani drifted into obscurity, another tribe moved into the area, the Allemani, hence the French word for the country, Allemagne. The Germans call their country Deutchland derived from Old High German for "diutisc" meaning vulgar or vernacular thus people who speak a common vernacular and not latin
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Stickney \n\nEnglish: habitational name from a place in Lincolnshire, so named from the genitive case of Old English sticca ‘long strip of land’ + ēg ‘island’, i.e. a strip of land between streams.
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From the ridge at end, it appears to be an English surname.  English surnames ( set up in the early Middle Ages) are of 4 types- Father's name (Robertson) , nickname (Jolley or could be a town) or descriptor(Brown), occupation (Baker) and place of residence as in Swatridge.  The Swat part may be a dialect word. It could also be swathe- a track melded into ridge or a swatch  - an English eastern dialect word- meaning a channel between sandbars, but maybe not, you wouldn't want to live there .  One of the things about the place surnames in medieval English is that people must have been living all over the landscape, not just huddled in small agricultural villages.  \nMany surnames that appear in later countries that one emigrated to have been mistranslated by immigration officers at point of landing, and also many names have variants,  Spelling didn't settle down until the late 19th century, though surnames tend to be very conservative and don't change spelling if they are in theri place of origin. \nMaybe someone kows the dialect meaning of Swat?
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Desmond seems like it can be for any race. I searched the origin of it and it has an English and Irish origin.
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Yes, it is.  The roots of the name in Ireland are somewhat unclear, but it seems to have both Irish Gaelic and Norman roots.\n\nCheck out the website I've attached.  It should help.
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From Wikipedia:\n\nThe name appears to derive from the Saxon here meaning army and hlaw meaning hill that was the meeting point of the local Saxon tribe. The village was noted later in Magna Carta and developed as a typical rural area.\n\nHope that's "original" enough!\n\nYour best bet for more detail is the Museum of Harlow ( http://www.tmoh.com ) but there's little available online - you'll need to go there.
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its  derived from the way they talk  the saying is we mackem and tackem  (make them and take them) as it is a strong dialect due to the fact that it was an area of shipbuilding and coal mining .i hope to see them back in the premiership soon .
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AUSTRALIA\nThe name Australia is derived from the Latin australis, meaning southern. Legends of an "unknown southern land" (terra australis incognita) date back to the Roman times, and were commonplace in mediæval geography, but were not based on any actual knowledge of the continent. The Dutch adjectival form Australische ("Australian", in the sense of "southern") was used by Dutch officials in Batavia to refer to the newly discovered land to the south as early as 1638."\n\nASIA\n"The word Asia entered English via Latin from Ancient Greek, first attested in Herodotus, where it refers to Asia Minor, or for the purposes of the Persian Wars, to the Persian Empire as opposed to Greece and Egypt. Homer knows a Trojan ally named Asios, son of Hyrtacus, a ruler over several towns, and also describes a marsh as 461).\nThe Greek term was likely from Assuwa, a 14th century BC confederation of states in ancient Anatolia. Hittite assu- "good" is a likely element in that name. Elamites numeous in the east called themselves As, and at least one Aryan people on the central Eurasian steppes called themselves Asi. Alternatively, the ultimate etymology of the term may be from the Akkadian word asu, which means "to go out" or "to rise", referring to the direction of the sun at sunrise in the Middle East. Compare to this the suggestion for the etymology of Europe from Semitic erebu "to set". The motives for the names of Asia and Europe would thus mirror each other, much like the terms orient and occident (the names Anatolia and Levant likewise signify "sunrise"). This suggestion is widely quoted, but it suffers from the fact that Anatolia from an Akkadian or generally Semitic perspective does not lie in the east."\n\nAFRICA\n"The name Africa came into Western use through the Romans, who used the name Africa terra — "land of the Afri" (plural, or "Afer" singular) — for the northern part of the continent, as the province of Africa with its capital Carthage, corresponding to modern-day Tunisia.\nThe origin of Afer may either come from: the Phoenician `afar, dust; \nthe Afri, a tribe—possibly Berber—who dwelt in North Africa in the Carthage area; \nthe Greek word aphrike, meaning without cold (see also List of traditional Greek place names); \nor the Latin word aprica, meaning sunny. \nThe historian Leo Africanus (1495-1554) attributed the origin to the Greek word phrike (meaning "cold and horror"), combined with the negating prefix a-, so meaning a land free of cold and horror. But the change of sound from ph to f in Greek is datable to about the first century, so this cannot really be the origin of the name.\n\nEgypt was considered part of Asia by the ancients, and first assigned to Africa by the geographer Ptolemy (85 - 165 AD), who accepted Alexandria as Prime Meridian and made the isthmus of Suez and the Red Sea the boundary between Asia and Africa. As Europeans came to understand the real extent of the continent, the idea of Africa expanded with their knowledge\n\nEUROPE\n"In Greek mythology, Europa was a Phoenician princess who was abducted by Zeus in bull form and taken to the island of Crete, where she gave birth to Minos. For Homer, Europa was a mythological queen of Crete, not a geographical designation. Later Europa stood for mainland Greece and by 500 BC its meaning was extended to lands to the north."\n\nTHE AMERICAS:\n"The earliest known use of the name America for the continents of the Americas dates from 1507. It appears on a globe and a large map created by the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller in Saint-Dié-des-Vosges. An accompanying book, Cosmographiae Introductio, explains that the name was derived from the Latinized version of the explorer Amerigo Vespucci's name, Americus Vespucius, in its feminine form, America, as the other continents all have Latin feminine na
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Heres a couple sites you can try.\nhttp://www.nameseekers.co.uk/surname.htm\nhttp://www.searchforancestors.com/surnames/origin/
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Where it started.  In England
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The Name we use today derives from the Pyramid of Pepy I at Saqqara, which is Mennufer (the good place), or Coptic Menfe. Memphis is the Greek translation. But the City was originally Ineb-Hedj, meaning "The White Wall". \n\nSome sources indicate that other versions of the name may have even translated to our modern name for the country, Egypt. During the Middle Kingdom, it was Ankh-Tawy, or "That Which Binds the Two Lands".
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Samuel - Somhairle\nSally and Sadie both started out as pet forms of Sarah, a Hebrew name meaning "princess.". Sarah was never translated into Irish, although it was used as an anglicization of the name Sorcha (SUR a kha). Sorcha is an Irish name meaning "bright, radiant".\nFamily depends on usage of the word\nCharisma's child & Prince Amazulu don't translate into Irish Gaelic
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It's originally Gelaye, and is from France.  It was a Huguenot name.