List of English Baby Names Meanings

Fell

(FEHL)

Norse Meaning: The name Fell is a Norse baby name. In Norse the meaning of the name Fell is: From the rough hill.

Meaning: Living in the mountains Origin: English, Old Norse

Felman

(FEHL-mən)

Felman Family History. Felman Name Meaning. Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant spelling of Fellman. Respelling of German Fehlmann, a variant of Feldmann, or of Fellmann (see Fellman).

Meaning: Living in the mountains Origin: English, Old Norse

Fielding

(FEEL-ding)

The name Fielding is an English baby name. In English the meaning of the name Fielding is: Lives in the field.

Meaning: Pasture made by clearing a forest Origin: English

Fife

(FIYF)

Fife Name Meaning. Scottish: regional name from the former kingdom of Fife in East Scotland, a name of obscure etymology. Tradition has it that the name is derived from an eponymous Fib, one of the seven sons of Cruithne, legendary founding father of the Picts.

Meaning: From Fife Origin: English, Gaelic

Finch

(FINCH)

Finch Name Meaning. English: nickname from Middle English finch 'finch' (Old English finc). In the Middle Ages this bird had a reputation for stupidity. It may perhaps also in part represent a metonymic occupational name for someone who caught finches and sold them as songsters or for the cooking pot.

Meaning: Breeder or seller of finches Origin: English

Fitzgerald

(FITS-jehr-əld)

The surname FitzGerald comes from the Norman tradition of adding Fitz, meaning "son of" before the father's name. "Fitz Gerald" thus means in Old Norman and in Old French "son of Gerald". Gerald itself is a Germanic compound of ger, "spear", and waltan, " rule".

Meaning: Son of a powerful ruler Origin: English, French

Fitzpatrick

(FITS-PAT-rik)

Last name: Fitzpatrick. SDB Popularity ranking: 651. This interesting surname is an Anglicized form of the Old Gaelic name "Mac Giolla Phadraig". The Gaelic prefix "Mac" means "son of", plus "giolla", a devotee or servant, and the personal name "Padraig" from the Roman "Patricius" meaning "the one of noble birth".

Meaning: Son of Patrick Origin: English

Fleet

(FLEET)

Fleet Name Meaning. habitational name from one of the places called Fleet, in Dorset, Hampshire, Kent, and Lincolnshire, or from Holt Fleet on the Severn river in Worcestershire, all named with Old English fleot 'stream' or 'estuary'. It may also be a topographic name from the same word used independently.

Meaning: Creek Origin: English

Fleetwood

(FLEET-wuwd)

Fleetwood Name Meaning. English: probably a habitational name from a lost or unidentified place named with Old English fleot 'stream', 'estuary' + wudu 'wood'. The place of this name in Lancashire got its name in the 19th century from its founder, Sir Peter Hesketh Fleetwood, and is not the source of the surname.

Meaning: From an insignificant village called Fleet Origin: English

Flemming

(FLEHM-ing)

Fleming Name Meaning. English: ethnic name for someone from Flanders. In the Middle Ages there was considerable commercial intercourse between England and the Netherlands, particularly in the wool trade, and many Flemish weavers and dyers settled in England.

Meaning: From Flanders in Normandy Origin: English, French