Ballard is a surname of English origin. It likely derives from Middle English "ball," meaning "white spot," plus the suffix "-ard," and would therefore mean "bald head." Indeed, Wyclif translated 2 Kings 2:23 as "Stye up, ballard," where Coverdale translated the same passage as "Come up here thou balde head."
Bancroft Name Meaning. English: habitational name from any of various minor places called Bancroft, from Old English bean 'beans' (a collective singular) + croft 'paddock', 'smallholding'.
Banks Name Meaning. English and Scottish: topographic name for someone who lived on the slope of a hillside or by a riverbank, from northern Middle English banke (from Old Danish banke).
Barlow Name Meaning. English: habitational name from any of several places called Barlow, especially those in Lancashire and West Yorkshire. The former is named with Old English bere 'barley' + hlaw 'hill'; the latter probably has as its first element the derived adjective beren or the compound bere-ærn 'barn'.
Barnett Name Meaning. habitational name from various places, for example Chipping (High) Barnet, East Barnet, and Friern Barnet in Greater London, named with Old English bærnet 'place cleared by burning' (a derivative of bærnan 'to burn', 'to set light to'). from a medieval personal name, a variant of Bernard.
English Meaning: The name Barrick is an English baby name. In English the meaning of the name Barrick is: Grain farm.
English Meaning: The name Barrington is an English baby name. In English the meaning of the name Barrington is: Fair-haired. Based on a surname and place name of uncertain origin. Occasionally used as a first name.
Barrow Name Meaning. habitational name from any of the numerous places named with Old English bearo, bearu 'grove' (dative bear(o)we, bearuwe), for example in Cheshire, Derbyshire, Gloucestershire, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Shropshire, Suffolk, and Somerset, or a topographic name with the same meaning.
Barwick Name Meaning. English: habitational name from any of various places called Barwick, for example in Norfolk, Somerset, and West Yorkshire, from Old English bere 'barley' + wic 'outlying farm', i.e. a granary lying some distance away from the main village.
Last name: Bates. SDB Popularity ranking: 27. This interesting surname has three distinct possible origins, the first and most likely source being the medieval male given name "Bate", itself a petform of "Bartholomew", from the Aramaic patronymic "bar-Talmay" meaning "abounding in furrows" or "rich in lands".
