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Green (English) Family Surname Origin and Meaning
This surname means ‘resident at the green’, a grassy area used as the village green. It was also used for someone from any of the place names called Green, and even as a nickname for someone who was fond of dressing in green. From the Old English word ‘grene’, meaning green.

 

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Carter (English) Family Surname Origin and Meaning
An occupational name meaning ‘the carter’, from a builder of carts or a transporter of goods. From either the Old English ‘craet’, the Old Norse ‘kartr’, the Latin ‘carettarius’, from ‘carrum’, or the Old Norman ‘caretier’ and ‘cartier’, all meaning cart and carter.

 

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Barker (English) Family Surname Origin and Meaning
An occupational name meaning ‘the barker’, an obsolete name for the bark-stripper or the man who prepared the bark for the tanner. From the Old English ‘beorc’ and ‘berc’, and the Middle English ‘bark’ and ‘barken’, meaning to tan, from the bark of a tree.

 

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Richardson (English) Family Surname Origin and Meaning
The surname Richardson means ‘son of Richard’ or ‘Richard’s son’, a very ancient personal name. From ‘Ricard’, from the Old English ‘ric’, meaning ‘power’, and ‘heard’, meaning ‘brave’ or ‘hardy’, to mean ‘powerful and brave’.

 

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Cooper (English) Family Surname Origin and Meaning
An occupational name meaning ‘the cooper’, from a person who made and sold barrels, wooden caskets, tubs, and buckets. From the German ‘kuper’, a derivative of ‘kup’, meaning ‘container’. Also from the Old English ‘coper’, meaning ‘copper’, for a maker or seller of copper or metal containers.

 

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O’Sullivan (Irish) Ancient Coat of Arms (Family Crest) Digital Image Instant Download

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O’Sullivan (Irish) Family Surname Origin and Meaning
Meaning ‘male descendant of Suileabhan (or Súilleabháin)’, a personal name meaning ‘hawk-eyed’. Sullivan together with O’Sullivan are the third most common names in all Ireland, and is the most popular surname in both County Cork and County Kerry.

 

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O’Connor (Irish) Family Surname Origin and Meaning
From the Irish Gaelic Ó Conchobhair, meaning ‘descendant of Conchobar’, from ‘cu’, meaning ‘the hound’, and ‘cobhar’, meaning ‘a desire’. It was the name of a family which once ruled Connacht, and provided Ireland with at least two High Kings.

 

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Riley (Irish) Family Surname Origin and Meaning
This is of both Irish and English origin. In Ireland the name derives from the Gaelic Ó Raghailligh, which means ‘the descendant of Raghallach’, an old personal name. In England this is a locational name meaning ‘of Riley’, such as High Riley in Altham, Lancashire, Riley Green near Blackburn, or Riley Hill in Staffordshire. From the Old English ‘rygh’, meaning ‘rye’, with ‘leah’,
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