Names Like Lennox

Lenn is a short form of Lennox, Leonard, Lennard, and Lennon. The name is of Scottish (Gaelic), Germanic and Irish origin and comes from the following roots: (LEVEN-ACH) (LEONHARD) (Ó LEANNÁIN) and (Ó LEANNÁIN).

This name derives from the Irish and Scottish (Gaelic) “Gleann,” meaning “(from the) valley” the name also refers to “Glynn,” a small village and civil parish in the Larne Borough Council area of County Antrim, Northern Ireland. Besides, “Glen” is a Scottish habitational surname for someone who lives in a valley. In Sweden, Glenn is a popular first name in the western parts of the country, but especially Gothenburg, originally due to a large and influential population of emigrated Scotsmen, especially in the city’s early centuries.

This name derives from the 6th-century Frankish saint “Leonhard,” composed of two elements: The Ancient Germanic “*lewa(n)-” (Ancient Greek: Leōn “Λέων”; Latin: leō / leōnis) (lion) plus “*harduz / *hardu-” (hard, strong, brave, courageous, powerful one). In turn, the name means “strong as the lion, brave lion, bold as a lion.” Leonard is also an Irish origin surname, from the Gaelic “O’Leannain,” consisting of the prefix “O” (descendant of) and the suffix Leannan (lover). The oldest public records of the surname appear in 1272 in Huntingdonshire, England, and in 1479 in Ulm, Germany. 1) Leonard of Noblac is a Frankish saint closely associated with the town and abbey of Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat, in Haute-Vienne, in the Limousin region of France. The feast day is traditionally celebrated on November 6. 2) Saint Leonardo Murialdo (1828–1900) was an Italian priest from Turin who established the Congregation of Saint Joseph - also known as the Murialdines. He was canonized in 1970.

The given name Logan derives from the Scottish surname “Logan,” which, in turn, derives from a place name. This surname’s likely origin is a place near Auchinleck (Scottish Gaelic: Achadh nan Leac), in Ayrshire, Scotland. The place-name derives from the Gaelic “lagan,” which is a diminutive of “lag,” which in turn means “hollow.” Males and females bear the given name.

This name is related etymologically to the names Leontius and Leonidas and derives from the Ancient Greek “leōn (λεων),” meaning “lion.” Pope Leo I (Leone Magno), was the head of the Catholic Church from 29 September 440 to his death in 461. Léonie Aviat, in religion “Sister Françoise de Sales,” was a French nun and founder of the Congregation of the Oblate Sisters of St. Francis de Sales. John Paul II canonized her in 2001. Leonidas was a Greek hero-king of Sparta, the 17th of the Agiad line Leonidas I (490–480 BCE), third son of King Anaxandridas II of Sparta.

This name derives from the Hebrew “Lemû’êl/Lemô’êl,” meaning “devoted to God.” Lemuel is mentioned in the book of Proverbs, chapter 31. It is the second eldest of Lehi’s sons and the brother of Laman, Sam, Nephi, Jacob, and Joseph. The name is related to Lael found in Numbers 3:24, meaning a man consecrated “to God.” In the etymological form, the name Lemuel is kindred with Jamuel (Genesis 46:10) and Namuel (1 Chronicles 4:24).

This name derives from the Scottish Gaelic “dromainn”, meaning “ridge, or high ground”, from the Old Irish “druimm,” meaning” back, ridge”. This great and noble name is of Scottish territorial origin from any of the various places, including Drymen near Stirling. Clan Drummond is a Highland Scottish clan. The name is rendered “Druimeanach” in modern Scottish Gaelic. The first chief of Clan Drummond to appear in written records was Malcolm Beg, Chamberlain of Lennox, who married a daughter of the Earl of Lennox, named Ada, before 1260.

This name derives from the Scottish and Irish (Gaelic) “beatha” (Welsh: bywyd), which in turn derives from the Proto-Celtic “*bivo-tūts,” meaning “life.” Saint Beanus was a bishop in Leinster, one of the Provinces of Ireland situated in the east of Ireland.

This name derives from the Irish and Scottish (Gaelic) “Gleann,” meaning “(from the) valley” the name also refers to “Glynn,” a small village and civil parish in the Larne Borough Council area of County Antrim, Northern Ireland. Besides, “Glen” is a Scottish habitational surname for someone who lives in a valley. In Sweden, Glenn is a popular first name in the western parts of the country, but especially Gothenburg, originally due to a large and influential population of emigrated Scotsmen, especially in the city’s early centuries.

This name means “meadow dwelling.” Dallas is a surname of Scottish and English origin. 1) From Scottish origin, the name is a habitational name, derived from Dallas near Forres. This place-name is likely derived from the Brittonic “dol” (meadow) plus “gwas” (dwelling) (Gaelic: dail fas). This name also appears in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. 2) From the English origin, the name is a habitational name, derived from the Old English “dæl” (valley) plus “hus” (house). Dallas is the ninth-largest city in the United States and the third-largest city in the state of Texas.

This name derives from a Scottish surname “Irvine,” meaning “green water,” from the river Irvine in Dumfriesshire. The name, in turn, is composed of two Celtic elements: “ir” (green, fresh) plus “afon” (river, water). However, wherever found, the surname can also be a developed form of the Old English pre 7th century given name “Irwyn,” originally composed of the elements “eofor,” meaning “wild boar,” and “wine,” meaning “a friend.” Clan Irvine is a lowland Scottish clan. Sometime between 1124 and 1125, Gilchrist, son of Erwini, witnessed a charter of the Lords of Galloway. The first lands by the name of Irvine were in Dumfriesshire. According to family tradition, the clan chief’s family’s origin is connected with the early Celtic monarchs of Scotland.

This name means “crooked nose.” The name derives from the Scottish surname “Cameron,” from a Scottish Clan “Clan Cameron.” In the Scottish Highlands, the surname is thought to be derived from the Gaelic “cam sròn,” meaning “crooked nose”; in the Scottish Lowlands, the name is believed to be derived from a form of Norman baronial name from Cambernon, in Normandy. Cambernon is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France. The English-language surname can be rendered into Scottish Gaelic as Camarran (masculine), Chamarran (feminine), or as Camshron (masculine) and Chamshron (feminine).

This name is a short form of Alonzo, Laurence, and Leonard. The name is of Germanic (Gothic), Germanic and Latin origin and comes from the following roots: (ADALFUNS / HILDEFONS) (LAURENTĬUS) (LEONHARD) and (Ó LEANNÁIN).

This name derives from a Scottish toponym of unknown origin, probably from the old Celtic “loverno,” meaning “fox.” Lovern, in Celtic mythology, was a 1st-century Druid healer, called “the fox.” R.D. Blackmore invented the name Lorna or Lornah for his novel “Lorna Doone,” from the Scottish place name Lorn(e) in Argyll. Loarn mac Eirc was a legendary king of Dál Riata who may have lived in the 5th-century.

This name derives from the ancient Anglo-Scottish surname, probably of Norman-French origin. The origin of this name is still today quite uncertain. The theories include: 1) From the Welsh Brythonic “Rhos,” meaning “moor or moorland.” 2) From the Old High German “ros / hros,” meaning “horse.” 3) The name may be of Old English origin, from any of the various places called Ross in Herefordshire, Northumberland, or Ross's region in Northern Scotland, Roos in the East Riding of Yorkshire, and Roose in the county of Lancashire. Clan Ross is a Highland Scottish clan. The original chiefs of the clan were the original Earls of Ross. The first recorded chief of the Clan Ross was “Fearcher Mac an t' sagirt,” which in English meant “son of the priest,” alluding to his O'Beolan descent from the hereditary Abbots of Applecross.

With over twenty recordings in the “Dictionary of National Biography,” this famous surname is of Anglo-Saxon and Scottish origin. It is a locational place from any of the various sites so-called in Britain. The place-names are derived from the Old Saxon “hōh,” Old English “hēah”, Proto-Germanic “*hauhaz” (high) plus “tūn” (enclosure, settlement). In turn, the name means “the city in the high ground”.

A male given name transferred from the surname. The name comes from the Scottish (Gaelic) river, running through Glasgow, which in turn comes from the Gaelic “caol abhainn” (narrow water).

This name derives from the Old Norman “Williame,” (French: Guillaume; German: Wilhelm). In turn, the name derives from the Old High German name “Willihelm,” composed of two elements: “*wiljô” (will, wish, desire) plus “*helmaz” (helmet, protection); thus the Old German Name “Wilhelm” and the Old Norse name “Vilhjálmr” have the same roots. The first well-known bearer of the name was Charlemagne’s cousin William of Gellone, William of Orange, and Guillaume Fierabrace (755–812). This William is immortalized in the “Chanson de Guillaume,” and his esteem may account for the name’s subsequent popularity among European nobility. 1) William I (1028–1087), usually known as William the Conqueror and sometimes William, the Bastard, was the first Norman King of England, reigning from 1066 until he died in 1087. 2) William I (Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig, 1797–1888) of the House of Hohenzollern was the King of Prussia (1861–1888) and the first German Emperor (1871–1888), as well as the first Head of State of a united Germany. 3) William Tell is a famous hero of Switzerland. His legend is tracked in a Swiss chronicle of the late 15th-century.

This name derives from the Old Norse “*laiƀaR,” meaning “descendant, heir.” Leif Eiríksson was a Norse explorer regarded as the first European to land in North America (excluding Greenland), nearly 500 years before Christopher Columbus. According to the Sagas of Icelanders, he established a Norse settlement at Vinland, tentatively identified with the Norse L’Anse aux Meadows on the northern tip of Newfoundland in modern-day Canada.

This given name originates from the Scottish surname Gordon. The origin of this surname is debated. While it is considered to be derived from a place name, it is not sure that Gordon's place name, in Berwickshire, Scotland, is the origin of the surname. Berwickshire was once the home of Clan Gordon, and the earliest member of the family on record is Richer de Gordun, who was lord of Gordon's barony in the mid 12th century. The given name is thought to have been used in honor of Major-General Charles George Gordon (1833–1885), who was killed at Khartoum.

This name derives from the Old Norman “Williame,” (French: Guillaume; German: Wilhelm). In turn, the name derives from the Old High German name “Willihelm,” composed of two elements: “*wiljô” (will, wish, desire) plus “*helmaz” (helmet, protection); thus the Old German Name “Wilhelm” and the Old Norse name “Vilhjálmr” have the same roots. The first well-known bearer of the name was Charlemagne’s cousin William of Gellone, William of Orange, and Guillaume Fierabrace (755–812). This William is immortalized in the “Chanson de Guillaume,” and his esteem may account for the name’s subsequent popularity among European nobility. 1) William I (1028–1087), usually known as William the Conqueror and sometimes William, the Bastard, was the first Norman King of England, reigning from 1066 until he died in 1087. 2) William I (Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig, 1797–1888) of the House of Hohenzollern was the King of Prussia (1861–1888) and the first German Emperor (1871–1888), as well as the first Head of State of a united Germany. 3) William Tell is a famous hero of Switzerland. His legend is tracked in a Swiss chronicle of the late 15th-century.

A Laird is a member of the gentry. The Scots and Northern English dialectal variant Laird has been recorded in writing since the 13th-century, as a surname, and in its modern context since the middle of the 15th-century. It is derived from the Northern Middle English laverd, itself derived from the Old English word “hlafweard,” meaning “warden of loaves.” However, Lord and Lady have since become words primarily associated with the dignity of peers in Scotland, so the term “Laird” has taken on a separate meaning.

Leo is a short form of Leonardo, Leonardus, Leonard, Leon, Leontius, Leopold and Leopoldo. It is of Greek and Germanic origin and comes from the following roots: (LEŌN) (LEŌNTIOS) (LEONHARD) and (LIUTBALD).

Initially recorded as “Buschebi” in the Domesday Book of 1086, This name derives from the Old Norse “buskibýr” composed of two elements: “buski” (Wood woodland) plus “býr” (farmhouse, farmstead). Finally, the name means “from the farmhouse of the woods.” Busby is also the English name for the Hungarian “prémes csákó” or “kucsma,” a military head-dress made of fur, worn initially by Hungarian hussars.

This name is related etymologically to the names Leontius and Leonidas and derives from the Ancient Greek “leōn (λεων),” meaning “lion.” Pope Leo I (Leone Magno), was the head of the Catholic Church from 29 September 440 to his death in 461. Léonie Aviat, in religion “Sister Françoise de Sales,” was a French nun and founder of the Congregation of the Oblate Sisters of St. Francis de Sales. John Paul II canonized her in 2001. Leonidas was a Greek hero-king of Sparta, the 17th of the Agiad line Leonidas I (490–480 BCE), third son of King Anaxandridas II of Sparta.

Lex is a masculine diminutive of Alexius and Alexander. It is of Greek origin and comes from the following roots: (ÁLEXIS) and (ALÉXANDROS).

This name derives from the Old High German “Chlodowich and Chlodovech,” composed of two elements: “*hlūdaz,” meaning (to hear, loud, sound, noise / famous) plus “wīg,” meaning (fight, battle, fighter, able to fight). The name means “glorious in the battle, famous warrior.” Directly from the root of the name derives, for example, “Ludwig” and from “Chlodovech,” for example, derive the masculine form “Clovis and Clodoveo.” Clovis I, “Latinized form Chlodovech,” was king of the Franks and ruler of much of Gaul from 481 to 511, a crucial period during the transformation of the Roman Empire into Europe. His dynasty, the Merovingians, survived more than 200 years, until the rise of the Carolingians in the 8th-century. While he was not the first Frankish king, he was the kingdom’s political and religious founder.

This name derives from the Old Norse “*laiƀaR,” meaning “descendant, heir.” Leif Eiríksson was a Norse explorer regarded as the first European to land in North America (excluding Greenland), nearly 500 years before Christopher Columbus. According to the Sagas of Icelanders, he established a Norse settlement at Vinland, tentatively identified with the Norse L’Anse aux Meadows on the northern tip of Newfoundland in modern-day Canada.

This name may be an Anglicized form of the Irish Gaelic “O’ Cathain”, meaning “descendant of Cathan,” a personal name from the diminutive “Cath,” meaning “battle.” 2) It may be a nickname for a brave or proud person deriving from the Middle English “kene,” Old English pre 7th Century “cene.” 3) The name could derive from the Middle English given name “Kene”, a short form of any of the various old English pre 7th Century personal names with the first element “cene / cyne,” meaning “royal”, linked to “Cyning,” meaning “chieftain, king”.

This name derives from the Old Norse “leikr,” meaning “game, sport, play, contest, amusement, a joke.”