Last name: Wetherby. ... The place name of Wetherby derives from the Olde English word 'wether' meaning store cattle, and the Scandanavian '-bi' meaning a farm, the town being recorded as Wedrebi in the famous Domesday Book of 1086.
Weatherly Name Meaning. English and Scottish: habitational name from Wetherley in Cambridgeshire, named with Old English weðer 'wether', 'ram' + leah 'woodland clearing', or possibly from Wedderlie in Berwickshire, Scotland, which has the same origin.
Last name: Wetherby. ... The place name of Wetherby derives from the Olde English word 'wether' meaning store cattle, and the Scandanavian '-bi' meaning a farm, the town being recorded as Wedrebi in the famous Domesday Book of 1086.
English Meaning: The name Wethrleah is an English baby name. In English the meaning of the name Wethrleah is: From the wether sheep meadow.
Weyland Name Meaning. German: variant of Wieland. Similar surnames: Wyland, Weiland, Weygand, Neyland, Wentland, Weyand, Weiand, Weyman.
Wharton in Cheshire and Hertfordshire are derived from an Olde English pre 7th Century river name Woefer, from "woefre" meaning wandering or winding plus "tun", settlement. Wharton in Lincolnshire has as it's first element the Olde English "wearde" meaning beacon or "warod", shore, bank, plus "tun".
Wheatley is an English surname which translates into Old English as "from the wheat meadow". Alternative spellings include Wheatly, Whatley, Whitley, Wheetley, and Wheatleigh. Whether this is an association of work, or of origin, is debatable.
Wheaton Name Meaning. English: habitational name of uncertain origin, possibly from places in Lancashire and East and West Yorkshire named Weeton, from Old English wiðig 'willow' + tun 'settlement'.
Whitaker Name Meaning. English: habitational name from any of various places named with Old English hwit 'white' or hw?te 'wheat' + æcer 'cultivated land', as for example Whitaker in Lancashire and Whitacre in Warwickshire (both 'white field') or Whiteacre in Kent and Wheatacre in Norfolk (both 'wheat field').
Whitcomb Name Meaning. English: habitational name from any of various places called Whitcombe or Witcombe.
