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Bringhurst

The etymology of Bringhurst comes from the personal name "Bryni" derived from "bryne" (Old English), meaning "fire" or "flame", combined with the word "hurst" or "hyrst" meaning "wooded hill" in Old English, related to Old Saxon, and "hurst" or "horst" in Old High German.

Kaija

Kaija is a contemporary feminine personal name thought to have arisen as a Finnic variant of the Katrin, or alternatively from Katariina.

Polhov Gradec

The first part of the name is derived from a personal name, Polh or Povh; the name therefore means 'Polh's (little) castle'.


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Aydemir

According to Ancho Kaloyanov, the name of the village is derived from Greek άγιος (agios, "Saint") and the shortening of the personal name Demetrius, i.e. "Saint Demetrius", both through Turkic.

Bohova, Hoče–Slivnica

Like related Slavic place names (e.g., Bochowo in Poland and Bochov in the Czech Republic), the name is derived from the Slavic personal name *Boxъ, referring to early ownership or association with the place.

Chapmen

Chapman is also a common personal name of the class derived from trades.

Docker, Cumbria

Diana Whalley 2006 'A Dictionary of Lake District Place-Names', English Place Name Society, has this name as either place-name 'the shieling at the hollow' or 'the shieling where the plant called dock grows', or a personal name which "may have been a link with the family traced in Parker 1918" (Parker CA 'A pedigree of the family of Docker'. CW2 18, 161-73).

Dugal

In some cases it is derived from the Gaelic personal name Dùghall (variously spelt), or else from a reduced form of the surname MacDougall (which is an Anglicised surname originating from a patronymic form of Dùghall, Dubhghall, and etc.).

Empress Erzhu

Empress Erzhu (Jiemin) (爾朱皇后, personal name unknown)) (fl. 520s), wife of Emperor Jiemin of Northern Wei

Empress Lü

Empress Lü (Houshao) (呂皇后, personal name unknown) (died 180 BC), wife of Emperor Houshao of Han

Empress Xu

Empress Renxiaowen (徐皇后, personal name unknown) (1362–1407), wife of Yongle Emperor of Ming Dynasty

Empress Yu

Empress Yu (Xuanwu) (于皇后, personal name unknown) (488?–507), wife of Emperor Xuanwu of Northern Wei

Empress Zhen

Empress Zhen (Cao Fang) (甄皇后, personal name unknown) (died 251), wife of Cao Fang of Cao Wei

Great Peacemaker

The Great Peacemaker, sometimes referred to as Deganawida or Dekanawida (note that as a mark of respect, some Iroquois avoid using his personal name except in special circumstances) was, along with Hiawatha, by tradition the founder of the Haudenosaunee, commonly called the Iroquois Confederacy, a political and cultural union of several Native American tribes residing in the present-day state of New York.

Gunnies

The name of the village of Gunnislake in east Cornwall, England, UK, is partly derived from the term: the first record of the name in 1485 is as Gonellake from a personal name "Gunna" and the local word "lake" for a stream, but by 1796 the name had changed to its present form as a result of the mining that took place in the area.

Haxby

It is formed from a Norse personal name and the Old Scandinavian word bý, meaning "farmstead, village or settlement".

Hongnong

Prince of Hongnong, personal name Liu Bian, one-time emperor of the Han Dynasty.

Iori

Iori is a personal name in Japanese and in Welsh (where it is a diminutive of Iorwerth).

Kliment

Kliment (Климент) is a male name, a Slavic form of the Late Latin male personal name Clement.

Kutlug I Bilge Kagan

Kutlug I Bilge Peilo Kagan , also known by his throne name Qutlugh Bilge Köl Kaghan (骨咄禄毗伽阙可汗, gudulupigaquekehan), and in Chinese sources the personal name of Guli Peiluo (骨力裴罗, or Ku-li p'ei-lo ), was the Kaghan of Uyghur Khaganate, the successor state of the Turkic Khaganate.

La Barré

It was not until the early Middle Ages that surnames were first used to distinguish between numbers of people bearing the same personal name.

Li Jun

Emperor Suzong of Tang (711–762), personal name Li Jun, emperor of the Tang Dynasty

Liu Hong

Emperor Houshao of Han (died 180 BC), personal name Liu Hong (劉弘), fourth emperor of the Western Han Dynasty

Emperor Ling of Han (156–189), personal name Liu Hong (劉宏), 12th emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Liu Qi

Emperor Jing of Han, personal name Liu Qi, 6th emperor of the Western Han Dynasty

Lučine

The name Lučine, like similar toponyms (e.g., Luče, Leutschach < Lučane), is derived from the Slavic personal name *Ľubъkъ and likely refers to an early inhabitant of the place.

Lyalintsi

It is derived from the personal name Lyalya, "aunt", the nickname lyalya or lala, itself from Proto-Slavic *l'al'a, "babbler, fool" or from the personal name Lyala, an affectionate form of Vlado (Vladimir, Vladislav).

Milian

Milian is a Spanish (Milián) and Polish surname: from a reduced form of the Latin personal name Aemilianus (a derivative of Aemilius, a Roman family name probably derived from aemulus ‘rival’).

Molaise of Leighlin

:For other saints of the same personal name, see Laisrén (disambiguation)

Name of Jersey

Scholars surmise it derives from jarð (Old Norse for "earth") or jarl (earl), or perhaps a personal name, Geirr ("Geirr's Island").

Ó hAodha

Now generally anglicised as O'Hea (in County Cork), Hughes or Hayes, Ó hAodha derives from Aodh, a personal name (meaning "fire") popular at all historical times throughout the Gaelic world.

Ordgarius

Ordgar or Ordgarius is also an Anglo-Saxon masculine personal name (borne for example by Ordgar, Ealdorman of Devon, 10th century).

Ottiwell

One of the earliest recorded Ottiwells (as a personal name) was the son of Hugh d'Avranches, 1st Earl of Chester - a Norman.

Pope Romanus

Romanus, whose personal name is unknown, was born in Gallese, Italy near Civita Castellana.

Ragnall

The name is derived from two elements: one is the Old Scandinavian personal name Ragni; the other element is the Old English hyll, meaning "hill".

Robgill Tower

The village's name is from the Old English personal name Hreodbeorht (modern name Robert) and Old Norse gil "ravine.

Saer de Quincy, 1st Earl of Winchester

The family of de Quincy had arrived in England after the Norman Conquest, and took their name from Cuinchy in the Arrondissement of Béthune; the personal name "Saer" was used by them over several generations.

Scampston Hall

It is located on the north side of the A64 Leeds/Scarborough road, 4 miles (6 km) east of Malton, in Scampston village, whose name was variously written in ancient documents, Scamestun, Skameston, Skameston, and Skampston, and which was probably been derived from a personal name.

Shigehiko Hasumi

His personal name has been spelt variously as Shigehiko, the standard Hepburn romanization, Shiguehiko and Shiguéhiko on his publications.

Shizuka Kamei

He is sometimes humorously referred to as Shizuka chan (where "chan" is a title usually reserved for young girls) after a female character in the manga Doraemon who shares his personal name.

Sugrue

It is the reduced anglicized form of the Gaelic Ó Siochfhradha descendant of Siochfhradh, a personal name representing a Gaelicized form of an Old Norse cognate of Germanic Siegfried.

Tardu

According to Lev Gumilev his personal name was Kara-Churin-Turk (Кара Чурин Тюрк).

Teharje

The name is believed to derive from *Těxar′e (selo) (literally, 'Těxar's village') based on the hypocoristic personal name *Těxar(′)ь, related to toponyms such as Slovene Teharče (German Techanting) in Austrian Carinthia, as well as Czech Těchařovice and Macedonian Tearce.

Xiong Yuan

Jia'ao, king of Chu (r. 544–541 BC), personal name Xiong Yuan (熊員)

Yinan

Zhenzhu Khan (died 645), personal name Yi'nan (夷男), khan of Xueyantuo

Yr Elen

The etymology of the name is unclear, with the personal name "Helen" or "Eleanor" being one possibility, perhaps after Eleanor de Montfort (d. 1282), princess of Wales and wife of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd.